Defies authority
The crossword clue "Defies authority" is answered by REBELS, a 6-letter entry. Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. 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
REBELS
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the REBELS answer page.
Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. 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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