Anagrams of: DYFY_

• 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

• a young person of either sex

• English painter and art critic (1866-1934)

• English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)

• be excessively hot

• cook in hot fat or oil

• kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair

• a branch of the Tai languages; spoken by the Bouyei people of the province of southern Guizhou, China

• a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

• slightly insane

• suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness

• the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet

• a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks)

• the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

• the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet

• used of a single unit or thing; not two or more

• so as to pass a given point

• in reserve; not for immediate use

• United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935)

• time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

• a point or period in time

• a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance

• the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside

• the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working)

• an era of existence or influence

• the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis

• the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day

• a period of opportunity