| Del ___, county in Calif. | 25 |
| Del ___, town in Colo. | 22 |
| Delaney of China Beach | 26 |
| Delaware political family | 25 |
| Delaware senator since 1973 | 27 |
| Delaware Valley Indians | 23 |
| Delaware Water and generation | 29 |
| Delaware's capital | 22 |
| Delaware's nickname | 23 |
| Delaware's senior senator | 29 |
| Delaware, the ___ State | 23 |
| Delaware, to Lafayette | 22 |
| Delay in verse production? | 26 |
| Delay one's departure | 25 |
| DeLay's predecessor | 23 |
| Delay, with "off" | 27 |
| Delay/reverb's cousin | 25 |
| Delayed, as in traffic | 22 |
| Delays one's retirement? | 28 |
| Delays set them back: Abbr. | 27 |
| Delbert ___, film director | 26 |
| Delectable crustacean | 22 |
| Delegate with full power | 24 |
| DeLeo brothers band (Abbr.) | 27 |
| DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots | 28 |
| Deles, with "out" | 27 |
| Delete in one quick stroke | 26 |
| Delete, as from a hard drive | 28 |
| Delete, as newspaper type | 25 |
| Delete, with "out" | 28 |
| Deleted from galley proofs | 26 |
| Deleted, with 'out' | 27 |
| Deleted, with "out" | 29 |
| Deleterious precipitation | 25 |
| Deletes, as expletives | 22 |
| Deletes, with 'out' | 27 |
| Deletes, with "out" | 29 |
| Deleting letters, in a way | 26 |
| Deli counter cheese brand | 25 |
| Deli counter order, perhaps | 27 |
| Deli item with no toppings | 26 |
| Deli meat in round slices | 25 |
| Deli meat often served on rye | 29 |
| Deli offering with eyes | 23 |
| Deli offering, informally | 25 |
| Deli owner's purchase | 25 |
| Deli sandwich freebies | 22 |
| Deli sandwich material | 22 |
| Deli sandwich specification | 27 |
| Deli sandwich, briefly | 22 |
| Deli sandwich, for short | 24 |
| Deli sandwiches, initially | 26 |
| Deli specialties, after seven | 29 |
| Deli worker's chore | 23 |
| Deli-department device | 22 |
| Deli-sandwich side dish | 23 |
| Delia's literary sister | 27 |
| Deliberate and certain | 22 |
| Deliberate and restrained | 25 |
| Deliberate blackthorn fruit? | 28 |
| Deliberate bridge overbid | 25 |
| Deliberate destruction | 22 |
| Deliberate discourtesies | 24 |
| Deliberate falsification | 24 |
| Deliberate killer of time | 25 |
| Deliberate loss, to a boxer | 27 |
| Deliberate or calculated | 24 |
| Deliberately disharmonize | 25 |
| Deliberately forgetting | 23 |
| Deliberately gum up the works | 29 |
| Deliberately misconstrues | 25 |
| Deliberately not notice | 23 |
| Deliberately overcharge | 23 |
| Deliberately paranoid org. | 26 |
| Deliberately soften criticism | 29 |
| Deliberately strange painter | 28 |
| Deliberately underestimate | 26 |
| Deliberator's words | 23 |
| Delicacy at a state dinner? | 27 |
| Delicacy from the deep | 22 |
| Delicacy that may be pickled | 28 |
| Delicacy with a special knife | 29 |
| Delicacy with Champagne | 23 |
| Delicacy's import vessel? | 29 |
| Delicate and ornamental | 23 |
| Delicate ballet position | 24 |
| Delicate blue perennial | 23 |
| Delicate breakfast item | 23 |
| Delicate color variations | 25 |
| Delicate curtain fabric | 23 |
| Delicate discrimination | 23 |
| Delicate first-date topic | 25 |
| Delicate meadow flower | 22 |
| Delicate needlepoint lace | 25 |
| Delicate spring roll wrapping | 29 |
| Delicate subject, for some | 26 |
| Delicate subject, to some | 25 |
| Delicate use of words, e.g. | 27 |
| Delicate, crumbly dessert | 25 |
| Delicate-fabric warning | 23 |