"Awesome!" in the '80s

The answer

RAD

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RAD

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

• "Awesome!" - used 148 times, most recently in 2026
• "Way cool!" - used 107 times, most recently in 2026
• "Far out!" - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• "Gnarly!" - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• "Cool!" - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• "Awesome, dude!" - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• X-ray unit - used 37 times, most recently in 2018
• "Totally tubular!" - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• "Tubular!" - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• "Groovy!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Totally awesome - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Super cool - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "Far out, dude!" - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• "Far out, man!" - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• "Sick!" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "Sweet!" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "Gnarly, dude!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Half a diam. - used 14 times, most recently in 2006
• "Wicked!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Energy unit - used 11 times, most recently in 2004
• Wicked cool - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• X-ray dose unit - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• "Cool, dude!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• "Kewl!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• "Neato!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Totally cool - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "Coolio!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Physicist's unit - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• X-ray dose - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Cool, in the '90s - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Dope - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Really cool - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Very cool - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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