Anagrams of: DEFGLY

• resist or confront with resistance

• elude, especially in a baffling way

• challenge

• two-winged insects characterized by active flight

• flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent

• an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth

• (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air

• fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect

• (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked

• travel through the air; be airborne

• move quickly or suddenly

• operate an airplane

• transport by aeroplane

• cause to fly or float

• be dispersed or disseminated

• change quickly from one emotional state to another

• pass away rapidly

• travel in an airplane

• display in the air or cause to float

• run away quickly

• travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft

• hit a fly

• decrease rapidly and disappear

• being in a tense state

• slightly insane

• suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness

• run away quickly

• an excavation; usually a quarry or mine

• A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.

• To be converted into this kind of soil.

• To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.