Give the thumbs-down to
The crossword clue "Give the thumbs-down to" is answered by NIX, a 3-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
NIX
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NIX answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- OVERRIDE (1 uses in xd)
- VOTEAGAINST (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for NIX
Every other clue in this collection answered by NIX, most used first.
- Veto - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
- Put the kibosh on - used 114 times, most recently in 2026
- Cancel - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Reject - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Turn down - used 24 times, most recently in 2020
- Kibosh - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Prohibit - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Shoot down - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Give a thumbs-down to - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Say no to - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Disallow - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Eighty-six - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Nothing doing! - used 10 times, most recently in 2004
- Kill - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Water sprite. - used 9 times, most recently in 1964
- Put an end to - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Quash - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Vote down - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Vote down, informally - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Overrule - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Squelch - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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- In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
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- "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
- To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
- In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times
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