Ran its course
The crossword clue "Ran its course" is answered by ENDED, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ENDED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ENDED answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ENDED
Every other clue in this collection answered by ENDED, most used first.
- Over - used 170 times, most recently in 2026
- Finished - used 119 times, most recently in 2026
- Concluded - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
- Wrapped up - used 101 times, most recently in 2025
- Came to a close - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- Broke off - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Wound up - used 43 times, most recently in 2023
- Done - used 42 times, most recently in 2024
- Stopped - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Brought to a close - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Drew to a close - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Terminated - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Through - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Pulled the plug on - used 20 times, most recently in 2022
- All over - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
- Cut off - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
- Came to a conclusion - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Put a stop to - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Closed - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Finished up - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Ceased - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Called off - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Completed - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Over and done with - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Discontinued - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Put the kibosh on - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
- Was over - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Wound down - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Finito - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Over and done - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Reached a conclusion - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Shut down - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Didn't continue - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Signed off - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- All done - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Brought to a conclusion - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Finalized - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Kaput - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Also-ran - LOSER, used 68 times
- Dinner course - SALAD, used 58 times
- Ran in neutral - IDLED, used 46 times
- Ran easily - LOPED, used 30 times
- "Of course!" - NATCH, used 28 times
- 101 course - INTRO, used 25 times
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