diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
index da31cff03..dd15b03a2 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         axis: Axis | None = ...,
         copy: bool = ...,
         inplace: Literal[True],
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        level: Level | None = None,
         errors: IgnoreRaise = ...,
     ) -> None: ...
     @overload
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         axis: Axis | None = ...,
         copy: bool = ...,
         inplace: Literal[False] = False,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        level: Level | None = None,
         errors: IgnoreRaise = ...,
     ) -> Self: ...
     @overload
@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def dropna(
         self,
         *,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         how: AnyAll = ...,
         thresh: int | None = ...,
         subset: ListLikeU | Scalar | None = ...,
@@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def dropna(
         self,
         *,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         how: AnyAll = ...,
         thresh: int | None = ...,
         subset: ListLikeU | Scalar | None = ...,
@@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         self,
         by: _str | Sequence[_str],
         *,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         ascending: _bool | Sequence[_bool] = ...,
         kind: SortKind = ...,
         na_position: NaPosition = ...,
@@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         self,
         by: _str | Sequence[_str],
         *,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         ascending: _bool | Sequence[_bool] = ...,
         kind: SortKind = ...,
         na_position: NaPosition = ...,
@@ -1199,8 +1199,8 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def sort_index(
         self,
         *,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
+        level: Level | None = None,
         ascending: _bool | Sequence[_bool] = ...,
         kind: SortKind = ...,
         na_position: NaPosition = ...,
@@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def sort_index(
         self,
         *,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         level: Level | list[int] | list[_str] | None = ...,
         ascending: _bool | Sequence[_bool] = ...,
         kind: SortKind = ...,
@@ -1512,33 +1512,20 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     ) -> Self: ...
     def diff(self, periods: int = 1, axis: Axis = 0) -> Self: ...
     @overload
-    def agg(  # pyright: ignore[reportOverlappingOverload]
-        self,
-        func: AggFuncTypeBase | AggFuncTypeDictSeries,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
-        **kwargs: Any,
-    ) -> Series: ...
-    @overload
-    def agg(
-        self,
-        func: list[AggFuncTypeBase] | AggFuncTypeDictFrame = ...,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
-        **kwargs: Any,
-    ) -> Self: ...
-    @overload
     def aggregate(  # pyright: ignore[reportOverlappingOverload]
         self,
         func: AggFuncTypeBase | AggFuncTypeDictSeries,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> Series: ...
     @overload
     def aggregate(
         self,
-        func: list[AggFuncTypeBase] | AggFuncTypeDictFrame,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        func: list[AggFuncTypeBase] | AggFuncTypeDictFrame | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> Self: ...
+    agg = aggregate
     def transform(
         self,
         func: AggFuncTypeFrame,
@@ -1588,7 +1575,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         self,
         # Use S2 (TypeVar without `default=Any`) instead of S1 due to https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/19182.
         f: Callable[..., S2 | NAType],
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         raw: _bool = ...,
         args: Any = ...,
         *,
@@ -1599,7 +1586,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def apply(
         self,
         f: Callable[..., ListLikeExceptSeriesAndStr | Series | Mapping[Any, Any]],
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         raw: _bool = ...,
         args: Any = ...,
         *,
@@ -1610,7 +1597,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def apply(
         self,
         f: Callable[..., ListLikeExceptSeriesAndStr | Mapping[Any, Any]],
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         raw: _bool = ...,
         args: Any = ...,
         *,
@@ -1623,7 +1610,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         f: Callable[
             ..., ListLikeExceptSeriesAndStr | Series | Scalar | Mapping[Any, Any]
         ],
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         raw: _bool = ...,
         args: Any = ...,
         *,
@@ -1636,7 +1623,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def apply(
         self,
         f: Callable[..., Series],
-        axis: AxisIndex = ...,
+        axis: AxisIndex = 0,
         raw: _bool = ...,
         args: Any = ...,
         *,
@@ -1769,7 +1756,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def quantile(
         self,
         q: float = ...,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         numeric_only: _bool = ...,
         interpolation: QuantileInterpolation = ...,
         method: CalculationMethod = ...,
@@ -1778,7 +1765,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def quantile(
         self,
         q: Sequence[float] | np_ndarray_float,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         numeric_only: _bool = ...,
         interpolation: QuantileInterpolation = ...,
         method: CalculationMethod = ...,
@@ -1961,16 +1948,17 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def sub(
         self,
         other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
+    subtract = sub
     def __rsub__(self, other: Any) -> Self: ...
     def rsub(
         self,
         other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
     def __mul__(self, other: Any) -> Self: ...
@@ -1990,7 +1978,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     @overload
     def all(
         self,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         bool_only: _bool | None = ...,
         skipna: _bool = ...,
         **kwargs: Any,
@@ -2008,7 +1996,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def any(
         self,
         *,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         bool_only: _bool | None = ...,
         skipna: _bool = ...,
         **kwargs: Any,
@@ -2054,7 +2042,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def bfill(
         self,
         *,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = None,
         inplace: Literal[True],
         limit: int | None = ...,
         limit_area: Literal["inside", "outside"] | None = ...,
@@ -2063,7 +2051,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def bfill(
         self,
         *,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = None,
         inplace: Literal[False] = False,
         limit: int | None = ...,
         limit_area: Literal["inside", "outside"] | None = ...,
@@ -2178,14 +2166,20 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def truediv(
         self,
         other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
     div = truediv
+    divide = truediv
     @final
     def droplevel(self, level: Level | list[Level], axis: Axis = 0) -> Self: ...
-    def eq(self, other, axis: Axis = "columns", level: Level | None = ...) -> Self: ...
+    def eq(
+        self,
+        other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
+    ) -> Self: ...
     @final
     def equals(self, other: Series | DataFrame) -> _bool: ...
     @final
@@ -2237,11 +2231,16 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def floordiv(
         self,
         other: float | ListLike | DataFrame,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
-    def ge(self, other, axis: Axis = "columns", level: Level | None = ...) -> Self: ...
+    def ge(
+        self,
+        other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
+    ) -> Self: ...
     @overload
     def get(self, key: Hashable, default: None = None) -> Series | None: ...
     @overload
@@ -2250,7 +2249,12 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def get(self, key: list[Hashable], default: None = None) -> Self | None: ...
     @overload
     def get(self, key: list[Hashable], default: _T) -> Self | _T: ...
-    def gt(self, other, axis: Axis = "columns", level: Level | None = ...) -> Self: ...
+    def gt(
+        self,
+        other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
+    ) -> Self: ...
     @final
     def head(self, n: int = 5) -> Self: ...
     @final
@@ -2260,7 +2264,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         self,
         method: InterpolateOptions = ...,
         *,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         limit: int | None = ...,
         limit_direction: Literal["forward", "backward", "both"] = ...,
         limit_area: Literal["inside", "outside"] | None = ...,
@@ -2272,7 +2276,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         self,
         method: InterpolateOptions = ...,
         *,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
         limit: int | None = ...,
         limit_direction: Literal["forward", "backward", "both"] = ...,
         limit_area: Literal["inside", "outside"] | None = ...,
@@ -2296,8 +2300,18 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     ) -> Series: ...
     @final
     def last_valid_index(self) -> Scalar: ...
-    def le(self, other, axis: Axis = "columns", level: Level | None = ...) -> Self: ...
-    def lt(self, other, axis: Axis = "columns", level: Level | None = ...) -> Self: ...
+    def le(
+        self,
+        other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
+    ) -> Self: ...
+    def lt(
+        self,
+        other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
+    ) -> Self: ...
     @overload
     def mask(
         self,
@@ -2312,7 +2326,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         *,
         inplace: Literal[True],
         axis: Axis | None = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        level: Level | None = None,
     ) -> None: ...
     @overload
     def mask(
@@ -2328,32 +2342,32 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         *,
         inplace: Literal[False] = False,
         axis: Axis | None = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        level: Level | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
     def max(
         self,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = 0,
         skipna: _bool | None = True,
         numeric_only: _bool = False,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> Series: ...
     def mean(
         self,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = 0,
         skipna: _bool | None = True,
         numeric_only: _bool = False,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> Series: ...
     def median(
         self,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = 0,
         skipna: _bool | None = True,
         numeric_only: _bool = False,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> Series: ...
     def min(
         self,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = 0,
         skipna: _bool | None = True,
         numeric_only: _bool = False,
         **kwargs: Any,
@@ -2361,18 +2375,24 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def mod(
         self,
         other: float | ListLike | DataFrame,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
     def mul(
         self,
         other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
-    def ne(self, other, axis: Axis = "columns", level: Level | None = ...) -> Self: ...
+    multiply = mul
+    def ne(
+        self,
+        other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
+    ) -> Self: ...
     @final
     def pct_change(
         self,
@@ -2386,26 +2406,19 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def pow(
         self,
         other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
     def prod(
         self,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = "columns",
         skipna: _bool | None = True,
         numeric_only: _bool = False,
         min_count: int = 0,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> Series: ...
-    def product(
-        self,
-        axis: Axis | None = ...,
-        skipna: _bool = True,
-        numeric_only: _bool = False,
-        min_count: int = 0,
-        **kwargs: Any,
-    ) -> Series: ...
+    product = prod
     @final
     def rank(
         self,
@@ -2416,13 +2429,6 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         ascending: _bool = True,
         pct: _bool = False,
     ) -> Self: ...
-    def rdiv(
-        self,
-        other,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
-        fill_value: float | None = None,
-    ) -> Self: ...
     @final
     def reindex_like(
         self,
@@ -2474,23 +2480,23 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     ) -> Self: ...
     def rfloordiv(
         self,
-        other,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
     def rmod(
         self,
-        other,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
     def rmul(
         self,
-        other,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
     @overload
@@ -2523,18 +2529,19 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     ) -> Rolling[Self]: ...
     def rpow(
         self,
-        other,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
+        axis: Axis = "columns",
+        level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
     def rtruediv(
         self,
-        other,
+        other: complex | ListLike | DataFrame,
         axis: Axis = "columns",
         level: Level | None = None,
         fill_value: float | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
+    rdiv = rtruediv
     @final
     def sample(
         self,
@@ -2567,7 +2574,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def squeeze(self, axis: Axis | None = None) -> DataFrame | Series | Scalar: ...
     def std(
         self,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = 0,
         skipna: _bool = True,
         ddof: int = 1,
         numeric_only: _bool = False,
@@ -2575,7 +2582,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     ) -> Series: ...
     def sum(
         self,
-        axis: Axis = 0,
+        axis: Axis | None = 0,
         skipna: _bool | None = True,
         numeric_only: _bool = False,
         min_count: int = 0,
@@ -2735,7 +2742,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     ) -> Self: ...
     def var(
         self,
-        axis: Axis = ...,
+        axis: Axis | None = 0,
         skipna: _bool | None = True,
         ddof: int = 1,
         numeric_only: _bool = False,
@@ -2755,7 +2762,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         *,
         inplace: Literal[True],
         axis: Axis | None = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        level: Level | None = None,
     ) -> None: ...
     @overload
     def where(
@@ -2771,19 +2778,11 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         *,
         inplace: Literal[False] = False,
         axis: Axis | None = ...,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
+        level: Level | None = None,
     ) -> Self: ...
     # Move from generic because Series is Generic and it returns Series[bool] there
     @final
     def __invert__(self) -> Self: ...
-    @final
-    def xs(
-        self,
-        key: Hashable,
-        axis: Axis = 0,
-        level: Level | None = ...,
-        drop_level: _bool = True,
-    ) -> Self | Series: ...
     # floordiv overload
     def __floordiv__(
         self, other: float | DataFrame | Series[int] | Series[float] | Sequence[float]
diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/generic.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/generic.pyi
index d5bee980b..56d80c24a 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/generic.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/generic.pyi
@@ -470,3 +470,10 @@ class NDFrame(indexing.IndexingMixin):
     ) -> DatetimeIndexResampler[Self]: ...  # pyrefly: ignore[bad-specialization]
     @final
     def take(self, indices: TakeIndexer, axis: Axis = 0, **kwargs: Any) -> Self: ...
+    def xs(
+        self,
+        key: IndexLabel,
+        axis: Axis = 0,
+        level: IndexLabel | None = None,
+        drop_level: _bool = True,
+    ) -> Self | Series: ...
diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/interchange/from_dataframe.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/interchange/from_dataframe.pyi
index 8dc8e7e0f..1cc31c0db 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/interchange/from_dataframe.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/interchange/from_dataframe.pyi
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+from typing import Any
+
 import pandas as pd
 
-def from_dataframe(df, allow_copy: bool = True) -> pd.DataFrame: ...
+# TODO: resolve with https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/63111
+def from_dataframe(df: Any, allow_copy: bool = True) -> pd.DataFrame: ...
diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi
index 654679fbd..4e030fb91 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi
@@ -4627,10 +4627,10 @@ class Series(IndexOpsMixin[S1], ElementOpsMixin[S1], NDFrame):
         copy: _bool | _NoDefaultDoNotUse = ...,
     ) -> Self: ...
     @final
-    def xs(
+    def xs(  # pyright: ignore[reportIncompatibleMethodOverride]  # pyrefly: ignore[bad-override]
         self,
         key: Hashable,
-        axis: AxisIndex = 0,
+        axis: AxisIndex = 0,  # type: ignore[override]
         level: Level | None = ...,
         drop_level: _bool = True,
     ) -> Self: ...
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 54771f994..59ffe5c73 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -204,10 +204,6 @@ ignore = [
   "PYI042",  # https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/snake-case-type-alias/
   "ERA001", "PLR0402", "PLC0105"
 ]
-"*frame.pyi" = [
-  # TODO: remove when pandas-dev/pandas-stubs#1446 is resolved
-  "ANN001", "ANN201", "ANN204", "ANN206",
-]
 "indexers.pyi" = [
   # TODO: remove when indexers.pyi is fully typed
   "ANN001", "ANN201", "ANN204", "ANN206",
diff --git a/tests/test_frame.py b/tests/test_frame.py
index d007e687c..90c368cb1 100644
--- a/tests/test_frame.py
+++ b/tests/test_frame.py
@@ -4263,6 +4263,13 @@ def test_xs_frame_new() -> None:
     }
     df = pd.DataFrame(data=d)
     df = df.set_index(["class", "animal", "locomotion"])
+    check(
+        assert_type(
+            df.xs(("mammal", "cat"), level=["class", "animal"]),
+            pd.Series | pd.DataFrame,
+        ),
+        pd.DataFrame,
+    )
     s1 = df.xs("mammal", axis=0)
     s2 = df.xs("num_wings", axis=1)
     check(assert_type(s1, pd.Series | pd.DataFrame), pd.DataFrame)