"Terrible" ruler

The answer

IVAN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IVAN answer page.

Used 38 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• IVANIV (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for IVAN

Every other clue in this collection answered by IVAN, most used first.

• Lendl of tennis - used 112 times, most recently in 2025
• Tennis great Lendl - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• "Terrible" czar - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ the Terrible - used 65 times, most recently in 2025
• "Terrible" tsar - used 50 times, most recently in 2024
• Nobelist Pavlov - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Infamous czar - used 38 times, most recently in 2025
• Director Reitman - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Terrible guy? - used 34 times, most recently in 2024
• "Ghostbusters" director Reitman - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Novelist Turgenev - used 32 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Romanov ruler - TSAR, used 96 times
• Russian ruler - TSAR, used 89 times
• Old Russian ruler - TSAR, used 84 times
• Mideast ruler - EMIR, used 82 times
• Former Russian ruler - TSAR, used 78 times
• Former Iranian ruler - SHAH, used 75 times

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