Ref's ruling
The crossword clue "Ref's ruling" is answered by TKO, a 3-letter entry. Used 21 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2023. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TKO
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TKO answer page.
Used 21 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2023. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for TKO
Every other clue in this collection answered by TKO, most used first.
- Ring decision - used 98 times, most recently in 2026
- Ref's decision - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
- Ref's call - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Ring result - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Boxing match ender, for short - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Boxing ref's ruling - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Bout stopper, for short - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Bout ender - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Boxing ref's call - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Boxing ref's decision - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Ring decision, briefly - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Fight-ending letters - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Bout ender, briefly - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Ring ref's decision - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Ring result, briefly - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Ring result, for short - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Bout decision - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Fight ender, briefly - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- WBA decision - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Boxing decision - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Boxing result - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Fight stopper - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Ring letters - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Bout ender, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Bout stopper, briefly - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Boxing term. - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
- MMA decision - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Ref's ring decision - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Result of a one-sided boxing match, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Ring call - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Ring decision, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Ring stat - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
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.
- Court ruling? - LET, used 17 times
- Ref's counterpart - UMP, used 8 times
- Ref's cousin - UMP, used 7 times
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