| Defensive players |
| Act together defensively |
| (In fencing) in a defensive stance |
| Some offensive or defensive gridders |
| Defensive footballers |
| Defensive schoolyard retort |
| Defensive sportsstrategy |
| Nondefensive military move |
| Defensive responses |
| Defensive woes? (1967) |
| Defensive wall around an outer court of a castle |
| When doubled, defensive fire |
| Mantra for a defensive lineman? |
| Defensive response to "You're insane |
| Fearsome Foursome defensive lineman Grier |
| Wagon train's defensive formation |
| Indicating defensiveness |
| Firmly entrenched |
| Barriers having trenches or ditches |
| Take a defensive position |
| Defensive story |
| Like some defensive strategies |
| Trench |
| Football position: defensive ___ |
| Watery trenches under drawbridges |
| Defensive weapon, for short |
| Defensive feeling |
| Defensive rocket: Abbr. |
| Tight or defensive, e.g. |
| Defensive barricade |