| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| FAULTY | Defective | |
| SHY | Defective | |
| FAIN | Defective | |
| INOPERATIVE | Defective | |
| FLAWED | Defective | |
| BROKEN | Defective | |
| DUDS | Defective items (coll) | |
| DUD | Defective failure (coll) | |
| APEPSY | Defective digestion, indigestion. | |
| PECCANT | Wrong; defective; faulty. | |
| MUTILOUS | Mutilated; defective; imperfect. | |
| INDEFECTIVE | Not defective; perfect; complete. | |
| UNRELIABLE | Defective rune design at fault | |
| SAND-BLIND | Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. | |
| RECALLS | Remembers requests to return defective products | |
| NOVELISTS | Writers put together defective oven inventories | |
| CONSPIRE | Work together on defective cop siren | |
| CEPHALOPODS | Defective cheap pools harbouring many sea creatures | |
| ANURY | Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury. | |
| ACATALECTIC | Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. | |
| HALT | To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective. | |
| FLAWY | Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty. | |
| MISLACTATION | Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk. | |
| VICIOUS | Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect. | |
| STAMMER | Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter. | |