| GULLIT | Ruud - - -, football manager |
| VANNISTELROOY | Ruud, Dutch former footballer appointed manager of Leicester City in 2024 (3,10) |
| KROL | Ruud .... , 1969-83 Holland defender (4) |
| ATP | Org. for Djokovic and Ruud |
| OSLO | Birth city of tennis star Casper Ruud |
| KLEINPASTE | Ruud ..., media gardening personality (10) |
| LUBBERS | Ruud ___, prime minister of the Netherlands from 1982-94 (7) |
| CASPER | ____ Ruud, Norwegian tennis player who reached the 2022 US Open final (6) |
| BROADY | Liam, British tennis player who defeated No. 4 men's seed Casper Ruud at Wimbledon this year (6) |
| COURTS | Casper Ruud and Naomi Osaka play on them |
| NISTELROOY | Manchester Utd's 2001-06 Dutch striker, Ruud van ... (10) |
| ALEXMCLEISH | Football manager nicknamed Big Eck who was appointed Scotland national team manager for a second time in February 2018 |
| HODGSON | Roy ___, football manager who took over as manager of his boyhood club, Crystal Palace, in 2017 |
| BRIANCLOUGH | Former football manager who claimed "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one" |
| SAMALLARDYCE | Manager of Crystal Palace from December 2016 who holds the record for the shortest tenure as England football manager |
| ROBSON | Former England football manager (6) |
| SEGA | "Football Manager 2016" game company |
| FERGUSON | Sir Alex --, football manager (8) |
| REVIE | Don -, former England football manager |
| RUNAGROUND | A football manager might become a wreck |
