Resist openly
The crossword clue "Resist openly" is answered by DEFY, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1962. 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 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1962. 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
- 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.
- Declare openly - AVOW, used 117 times
- Confess openly - AVOW, used 31 times
- Admit openly - AVOW, used 29 times
- Openly declare - AVOW, used 23 times
- Openly confess - AVOW, used 22 times
- Hard-to-resist impulse - URGE, used 21 times
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