Scottish rejection

The answer

NAE

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NAE answer page.

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NAE

Every other clue in this collection answered by NAE, most used first.

• Dundee denial - used 143 times, most recently in 2026
• Scot's denial - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
• Scot's refusal - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Scottish "no" - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Scottish denial - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Scot's "not" - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Scottish negative - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Scot's negative - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
• Scottish refusal - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Not, to a Scot - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Dumfries denial - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Aberdeen denial - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "Fat chance, laddie!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
• Highland refusal - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• No: Scot. - used 12 times, most recently in 1964
• Highlands denial - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Denial in Dundee - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ man can tether time or tide": Burns - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Rob Roy's refusal - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Scottish turndown - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "Sorry, laddie" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Scot's "no" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• "Go jump in the loch!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• No, to Burns - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Aberdeen negative - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Burnsian negative - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Dundee dissent - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Edinburgh denial - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Glasgow veto - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• "No" to Rob Roy - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Scot's turndown - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Scotch negative - used 7 times, most recently in 1997
• Burnsian refusal - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Highlander's negative - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Highlands negative - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Scot's dissent - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Stirling negative - used 6 times, most recently in 2009

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.

• Scottish river - DEE, used 103 times
• Scottish cap - TAM, used 98 times
• Scottish uncle - EME, used 56 times
• Scottish explorer - RAE, used 42 times
• Scottish John - IAN, used 34 times
• Scottish alder - ARN, used 27 times

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