Fly in the face of
The crossword clue "Fly in the face of" is answered by DEFY, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DEFY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEFY answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DEFY
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEFY, most used first.
- Stand up to - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Challenge - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Refuse to obey - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Go against - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Resist boldly - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Resist - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Rebel against - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Buck - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Resist openly - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Thumb one's nose at - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Flout - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Resist, as authority - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
- Fly high - SOAR, used 380 times
- In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
- On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
- From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
- Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
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