"Ain't gonna happen"
The crossword clue ""Ain't gonna happen"" is answered by NOHOW, a 5-letter entry. Used 17 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NOHOW
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOHOW answer page.
Used 17 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 8 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.
- NOSIREE (5 uses in xd)
Other clues for NOHOW
Every other clue in this collection answered by NOHOW, most used first.
- Not at all - used 33 times, most recently in 2019
- Not in any way - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
- "When pigs fly!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Emphatic refusal - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- "Forget it!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- "Absolutely not!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- "Ain't happening!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- At all - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- At all, in dialect - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Not by a long shot - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Happen again - RECUR, used 182 times
- Happen - OCCUR, used 148 times
- Happen next - ENSUE, used 124 times
- Happen as a result - ENSUE, used 23 times
- Make happen - CAUSE, used 22 times
- Let happen - ALLOW, used 17 times
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