Formal denial
The crossword clue "Formal denial" is answered by NAY, a 3-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. 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
NAY
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NAY answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
Other clues for NAY
Every other clue in this collection answered by NAY, most used first.
- Thumbs-down vote - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
- Vote against - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
- Dissenting vote - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Opposing vote - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Negative vote - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- No vote - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Thumbs-down - used 31 times, most recently in 2024
- Aye canceler - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Aye's opposite - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Anti's vote - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Certain vote - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Opposition vote - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Dissenter's vote - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Anti vote - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Aye undoer - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Opposite of yea - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Refusal - used 17 times, most recently in 2009
- Yea's opposite - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Senate vote - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Veto vote - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Voice vote - used 13 times, most recently in 2005
- Vote of dissent - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Con's vote - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Unfavorable vote - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Parliamentary vote - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Bill-blocking vote - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Denial - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
- One way to vote - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Opposite of "aye" - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Opposition answer - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Roll-call response - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Aye opponent - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Congressional vote - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- House vote - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Negative. - used 7 times, most recently in 1964
- Vote. - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Aye opposer - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Not only that but also - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Opponent's vote - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Dundee denial - NAE, used 143 times
- Scot's denial - NAE, used 108 times
- Dijon denial - NON, used 77 times
- Slangy denial - NAH, used 62 times
- Word of denial - NOT, used 58 times
- Scottish denial - NAE, used 53 times
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