| SLUGFEST | Term for a boxing match or struggle characterised by heavy blows (8) |
| ROUND | Circular piece of pastry or shortbread; division of a boxing match; or, the playing of a complete set of holes in golf (5) |
| GOABOUT | Leave a boxing match or circulate |
| RAMS | Forces or drives as by heavy blows |
| RAM | To force as by heavy blows (3) |
| PUNCHDRUNK | Stupefied by heavy blows |
| SPLITDECISION | Outcome of many a boxing match ... or 38- and 36-Down |
| RINGSIDE | Where the best seats are for a boxing match! (8) |
| SKIPROPE | Train for a boxing match, perhaps |
| LEGALESE | Heavy blows in shelter can produce this kind of language (8) |
| MULL | Device such as a hand-worked quern or a water- or wind-powered buhr/grindstone; a snuffbox; or, an old slang word for a boxing match (4) |
| MILL | Device such as a hand-worked quern or a water- or wind-powered buhr/grindstone; a snuffbox; or, an old slang word for a boxing match |
| STEROIDS | Desist or struggle with drugs (8) |
| POUNDING | Delivering repeated heavy blows (8) |
| STORMJIB | Trim jobs, should be able to withstand heavy blows (5,3) |
| SCUFFLES | Confused fights or struggles (8) |
| DUEL | From an old poetic word for "war" and Latin for "two", a single wager of battle or trial by combat; an affaire d'honneur or monomachy; or, any contest or struggle between two (4) |
| ABOUTTIME | A diary note for a boxing match? It should have happened sooner (5,4) |
| BOUT | Word from "bend, circuit, round, turn", for a boxing match, coughing fit, drinking spree, fencing encounter, wrestle or other "turn" of activity (4) |
| TKO | One possible ending for a boxing match: Abbr. |
