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Crossword-Solution: DEFENSE 7 letters, 101 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Defense n. Alt. of Defence
Defense v. t. To furnish with defenses; to fortify.

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DEFENSE anagram ESNEFED

We have 101 clues for the answer “DEFENSE”

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Alibi, often 1 answer
Belli's concern 1 answer
Cabinet department since 1947 1 answer
Cabinet post created 1947. 1 answer
Chant at a basketball game 1 answer
Cheney's erstwhile bailiwick 1 answer
Court chant 1 answer
Courtside chant 1 answer
Crowd's chant during a basketball game 1 answer
Cry at N.B.A. games 1 answer
Cry at a basketball arena 1 answer
Cry at a basketball game 1 answer
Cry heard at an N.B.A. game 1 answer
D, in many sports 1 answer
Department created during the Truman administration 1 answer
Department twice headed by Rumsfeld 1 answer
Department where Hagel is honcho 1 answer
Football eleven 1 answer
Football platoon 1 answer
Football side with cornerbacks 1 answer
Forrestal's herculean task. 1 answer
Fraise, e.g. 1 answer
Free safety's responsibility 1 answer
Goalie's gig 1 answer
Goalie's job 1 answer
Homeguard job. 1 answer
Linebacker's forte 1 answer
Lovett's sphere. 1 answer
Matlock's forte 1 answer
McNamara's assignment. 1 answer
Moat purpose 1 answer
Mr. Wilson's forte. 1 answer
New Cabinet post. 1 answer
Objective of U. S. military. 1 answer
One side at a trial 1 answer
One side in court 1 answer
One side in football 1 answer
Opposite of offense 1 answer
Pass rusher's team 1 answer
Purpose of the DEW line 1 answer
Rovert Lovett's responsibility. 1 answer
Sec. Brown's concern 1 answer
Secondary side 1 answer
Secy. Johnson's department. 1 answer
Side on a football field 1 answer
Side without the ball 1 answer
Stadium chant, and word that can follow the ends of the answers to starred clues 1 answer
Team on a football field 1 answer
Team without the ball 1 answer
The "D" of "NORAD" 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble DEFENSE7-letter words that start with D7-letter words that end in E7-letter words containing EF7-letter words containing SE7-letter words with D and E

Sentences with DEFENSE (5)

The Fawn and His Mother A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?” She smiled, and said: “I know full well, my son, that all you say is true.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Information was provided by the Bureau of the Census, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Nuclear Agency, Department of State, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Maritime Administration, National Science Foundation (Polar Information Program), Navy Operational Intelligence Center, Office of Territorial and International Affairs, United States Board on Geographic Names, United States Coast Guard, and others.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Teiresias, seer who comprehendest all, Lore of the wise and hidden mysteries, High things of heaven and low things of the earth, Thou knowest, though thy blinded eyes see naught, What plague infects our city; and we turn To thee, O seer, our one defense and shield.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
These people are paid professionals who do hacker-type tricks, e.g., leave cardboard signs saying "bomb" in critical defense installations, hand-lettered notes saying "Your codebooks have been stolen" (they usually haven't been) inside safes, etc.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Tito had pushed the development of military industries in the republic with the result that Bosnia hosted a large share of Yugoslavia's defense plants.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993

Quotes with DEFENSE (3)

One reason might be that if I hadn't tripped, I'd have been hamburger. When this sort of thing occurs, people often say that there was some power greater than themselves at work. This sounds reasonable. I am just suggesting that it is not necessary to equate "greater than ourselves" with "stretched across the heavenly vault." It could mean "just slightly greater." A cocoon of energy that we carry with us, that is capable, under some conditions, of affecting physicality. Furth…
Paul Quarrington The Boy on the Back of the Turtle: Seeking God, Quince Marmalade, and the Fabled Albatross on Darwin's Islands
do not let anyone inuntil they love you so fiercely, you have no defense against their love.
AVA. you are safe here.
The best defense is a confusing offense.
Kimberly Pauley Still Sucks to Be Me: More All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton Smith, Teen Vampire
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 68 times in crossword archives (1945–2023).