Presidential thumbs-down
The crossword clue "Presidential thumbs-down" is answered by VETO, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. 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
VETO
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the VETO answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for VETO
Every other clue in this collection answered by VETO, most used first.
- Presidential power - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Nix - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Presidential rejection - used 38 times, most recently in 2024
- Kill a bill - used 27 times, most recently in 2019
- Bill killer - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Presidential prerogative - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Reject - used 18 times, most recently in 2018
- Put the kibosh on - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- White House power - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Literally, "I forbid" - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
- Presidential turndown - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Quash - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn down - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Kill, as a bill - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Prohibit - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- White House no - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Kill, in a way - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Forbid. - used 8 times, most recently in 1999
- I forbid: Lat. - used 8 times, most recently in 1962
- Line-item __ - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Say no to - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- White House rejection - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Block, as a bill - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Overrule - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Presidential no - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- President's rejection - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Presidential action - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Presidential option - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Refuse to approve - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Reject, as a bill - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Touched down - ALIT, used 243 times
- Pack down - TAMP, used 216 times
- Came down - ALIT, used 186 times
- Turn down - DENY, used 119 times
- Came down to earth - ALIT, used 115 times
- Stepped down - ALIT, used 108 times
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