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Answer: DEFENSE

DEFENSE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 33 times.

• Cry at a basketball arena
• Arena chant
• Goalie's job
• Cabinet department
• Side on a football field
• Alibi, often
• Chant at a basketball game
• Stadium chant, and word that can follow the ends of the answers to starred clues
• Department twice headed by Rumsfeld
• National Guard concern
• Grandstand cry
• Goalie's gig
• Cheney's erstwhile bailiwick
• What Ed "Too Tall" Jones played
• Moat purpose
• Protection
• Safeguard
• One side in court
• They play with blocks
• Resistance against attack
• What Ray Lewis played
• Department where Hagel is honcho
• Part of DOD
• One side in football
• Department created during the Truman administration
• One side at a trial
• Cabinet part
• The "D" of "NORAD"
• Pass rusher's team
• Team without the ball
• Team on a football field
• Opposite of offense
• Obstacle in achieving one's goal?