| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| PUGILISTS | Boxers | |
| ROBES | Boxers’ coats | |
| GLASSJAW | Boxers inability to take a punch | |
| SHORTSTOP | Boxers and T-shirt for a baseball player | |
| DOGHOUSE | Where boxers, for example, go when they are in disgrace? | |
| ROUND | What boxers complete in three minutes can occupy golfers half the day! | |
| CESTUS | A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron. | |
| WHIRLBAT | Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers. | |
| SCRATCH | A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch. | |