| Destroyers of many castles | 26 |
| Destroyers, in Navy lingo | 25 |
| Destroyers, in Navy parlance | 28 |
| Destroyers, so to speak | 23 |
| Destroying bit by bit | 22 |
| Destroying angel, for example | 29 |
| Destroys by disintegration | 26 |
| Destroys files, in a way | 24 |
| Destroys sensitive material | 27 |
| Destroys with a ray gun | 23 |
| Destroys, as a hotel room | 25 |
| Destroys, as documents | 22 |
| Destroys, as illusions | 22 |
| Destruction of Isengard vets | 28 |
| Destructive 1966 hurricane | 26 |
| Destructive 1995 hurricane | 26 |
| Destructive 1998 hurricane | 26 |
| Destructive 2004 hurricane | 26 |
| Destructive 2005 hurricane | 26 |
| Destructive 2005 newsmaker | 26 |
| Destructive 2008 hurricane | 26 |
| Destructive computer program | 28 |
| Destructive computer virus | 26 |
| Destructive freshwater fish | 27 |
| Destructive Hindu god (var.) | 28 |
| Destructive hurricane of 2002 | 29 |
| Destructive hurricane of 2005 | 29 |
| Destructive hurricane of 2011 | 29 |
| Destructive kind of rain | 24 |
| Destructive operatives | 22 |
| Destructive peak in Sicily | 26 |
| Destructive precipitation | 25 |
| Destructive rushes of water | 27 |
| Destructive Sicilian peak | 25 |
| Destructive volcano in Sicily | 29 |
| Destructive windstorms | 22 |
| Destructive winter current | 26 |
| Destructively out of control | 28 |
| Det. Joe Friday's show | 26 |
| Det. Sipowicz's employer | 28 |
| Det. Sipowicz's org. | 24 |
| Det. Tiger or N.Y. Yankee | 25 |
| Detach from a dependency | 24 |
| Detach from dependence | 22 |
| Detach, as a book page | 22 |
| Detach, as a campaign button | 28 |
| Detach, as a clothespin | 23 |
| Detach, as a fence gate | 23 |
| Detach, as a lapel mike | 23 |
| Detach, as from a habit | 23 |
| Detach, in a certain way | 24 |
| Detach, with "off" | 28 |
| Detachable catalog item | 23 |
| Detachable shirt collar | 23 |
| Detachable shirt front | 22 |
| Detachable spacecraft unit | 26 |
| Detached facility for cooking | 29 |
| Detaches, as a ticket stub | 26 |
| Detachment of soldiers | 22 |
| Detail in a captain's log | 29 |
| Detail on some tickets | 22 |
| Detail to "tie up" | 28 |
| Detailed account: Abbr. | 23 |
| Detailed recital of events | 26 |
| Detailed, as instructions | 25 |
| Details about album, at times | 29 |
| Details in employee manuals | 27 |
| Details of escape routes | 24 |
| Detained at the precinct | 24 |
| Detainee's entitlement | 26 |
| Detainee's privilege | 24 |
| Detect an errant feather? | 25 |
| Detect Dan's cologne? | 25 |
| Detect with one's nose | 26 |
| Detecting duo's dog | 23 |
| Detective aided by his father | 29 |
| Detective Archer of fiction | 27 |
| Detective created by Rex | 24 |
| Detective duo's dog | 23 |
| Detective duo's terrier | 27 |
| Detective fiction pioneer | 25 |
| Detective fond of aphorisms | 27 |
| Detective Gunn of TV fame | 25 |
| Detective in a wheelchair | 25 |
| Detective lit's Lupin | 25 |
| Detective Lord ___ Wimsey | 25 |
| Detective novelist Erle | 23 |
| Detective novelist Paretsky | 27 |
| Detective of British TV | 23 |
| Detective Peter of old TV | 25 |
| Detective Poirot, e.g. | 22 |
| Detective portrayed by Lorre | 28 |
| Detective story pioneer | 23 |
| Detective usin' taps? | 25 |
| Detective with a large family | 29 |
| Detective Wolfe of fiction | 26 |
| Detective work, at times | 24 |
| Detective writer Paretsky | 25 |
| Detective's assignment | 26 |
| Detective's assignments | 27 |