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The answer

NOT

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOT answer page.

Used 17 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NOT

Every other clue in this collection answered by NOT, most used first.

• "Just kidding!" - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Negative. - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• "Kidding!" - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• "Psych!" - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• Word of denial - used 58 times, most recently in 2025
• Negating word - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ so fast!" - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ a chance!" - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• "As if!" - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Forget-me-__ - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ to worry" - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ too shabby!" - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of NIMBY - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "I should say __!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Ready alternative? - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ on your life!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "What's __ to like?" - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• "Do ___ disturb" - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Undoing word - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
• Negative word - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Part of a famous soliloquy - used 19 times, most recently in 2013
• "Hardly!" - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ if I can help it!" - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "Wayne's World" word - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "Believe It or ___!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Commandment word - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• "Ready or __..." - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• "To be or -- ..." - used 14 times, most recently in 2015
• "___ a problem" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "She loves me __" - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• "___ as a Stranger" - used 11 times, most recently in 2002
• "Just joking!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Oft-contracted word - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Petal plucker's word - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• "__ on my watch!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• ___-for-profit - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• "Like it" alternative - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ to mention ..." - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Wayne's word - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
• Word in most Commandments - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• "Just the opposite!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• "Sorry ___ sorry" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "That's __ funny!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• To no degree. - used 8 times, most recently in 1983
• "Wayne's World" catchword - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Word in most of the Ten Commandments - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "Fat chance!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "I kid you __!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• "I think ___" - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• "I'm kidding!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• "I'm ___ Rappaport" - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• "___ in a million years!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "Ready or ___, here I come!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• "To Have and Have __" - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Word that's often contracted - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• ___ bad. - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• "__ cool" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "Death Be ___ Proud" - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• "Fooled you!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• "Just Kidding," in Wayne's World - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Michael Jackson's "You Are ___ Alone" - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Part of N/A - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "That's __ fair!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "We are ___ amused" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Word in eight Commandments - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Born - NEE, used 533 times
• Zero - NIL, used 399 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• Teachers' org. - NEA, used 369 times
• Neither's partner - NOR, used 359 times
• Zilch - NIL, used 358 times

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