Resist, as authority
The crossword clue "Resist, as authority" is answered by DEFY, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 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 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- Fly in the face of - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- 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
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.
- Hard-to-resist impulse - URGE, used 21 times
- Quote as an authority - CITE, used 14 times
- Etiquette authority - POST, used 9 times
- Suffix with resist - ANCE, used 9 times
- Center of authority - SEAT, used 6 times
- Hard-to-resist feeling - URGE, used 6 times
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