Having no key
The crossword clue "Having no key" is answered by ATONAL, a 6-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ATONAL
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ATONAL answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ATONAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by ATONAL, most used first.
- Lacking a musical key - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Lacking a key - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
- Keyless - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Without a key - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Without a musical key - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Keyless, as music - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Lacking a key, musically - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Like some modern music - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Musically keyless - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Discordant - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Lacking a key, in music - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Like Berg's music - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Discordant, musically - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Like some music - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
- Hardly melodious - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Like much modern music - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Like music without a key - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Like Schoenberg's music - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Like some 20th century music - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Lacking a musical quality - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Unkeyed - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Having a handle - ANSATE, used 30 times
- Computer key - DELETE, used 25 times
- Cash register key - NOSALE, used 23 times
- Key in again - RETYPE, used 19 times
- Having wings - ALATED, used 18 times
- Having limits - FINITE, used 17 times
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