"Ain't happening!"
The crossword clue ""Ain't happening!"" is answered by NOHOW, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. 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
NOHOW
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOHOW answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. 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
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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
- "Ain't gonna happen" - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- 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
- 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.
- Happening - EVENT, used 219 times
- Keep from happening - AVERT, used 73 times
- Major happening - EVENT, used 42 times
- Happening - AFOOT, used 30 times
- Important happening - EVENT, used 20 times
- Prevent from happening - AVERT, used 14 times
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