Totally awesome

The answer

RAD

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

Used 20 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 13 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.

• EPIC (13 uses in xd)
• WAYCOOL (4 uses in xd)
• BADASS (2 uses in xd)
• BOMBDIGGITY (1 uses in xd)
• JAWDROPPING (1 uses in xd)

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
• 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
• "Awesome!" in the '80s - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• 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.

• Totally - ALL, used 45 times
• Totally fine - AOK, used 28 times
• Totally dominate - OWN, used 23 times
• Awesome - FAB, used 14 times
• "Awesome!" - WOW, used 14 times
• "Awesome!" - OOH, used 9 times

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