| VITRIFIED | Strengthened a defensive position (9,4) |
| FORT | Strengthened a defensive position (9,4) |
| ANTED | Strengthened a poker pot |
| BASTIONED | Somehow strengthened, a bed is not falling apart (9) |
| DIGONESELFIN | Personally take a defensive position in a trench or other redoubt (3,7,2) |
| ENGARDE | In fencing, a warning to assume a defensive position in readiness for an attack (2,5) |
| CIRCLESTHEWAGONS | Takes a defensive position |
| SORTIE | Attack made from a defensive position |
| DIGGINGIN | Creating a defensive position - eating vigorously (7,2) |
| RETRENCH | Soldiers on top of a defensive position - fire (8) |
| STANDTO | Assume a defensive position |
| REDOUBTS | Fortifications added to a defensive position (8) |
| DIGIN | Assume a defensive position, start eating (3,2) |
| BLOCKHOUSE | An igloo as a defensive position |
| LEFTBACK | Player in a defensive position (4,4) |
| CIRCLETHEWAGONS | Assume a defensive position (and one way to highlight the puzzle theme found in the first and last l |
| DIGUP | I'd returned with spirit to prepare a defensive position (3,2) |
| REDOUBT | Have second thoughts, yet again in a defensive position (7) |
| ANTIBODY | Perform part the wrong way in any material that takes a defensive position (8) |
| FORTHATMATTER | Defensive position mad character had about source of cash, indeed |
