No crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “No” are ZERO, NARY or MEAN, with 4 letters. Below are 111 answers from 3 to 15 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

OUT 3 letters · adjective

no longer fashionable “that style is out these days”

ZERO 4 letters · adjective

having no measurable or otherwise determinable value “the goal is zero population growth”

BLACK 5 letters · adjective

being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light “black leather jackets”

DIRECT 6 letters · adjective

having no intervening persons, agents, conditions “in direct sunlight”

QUICKLY 7 letters · adverb

with little or no delay

STRAIGHT 8 letters · adjective

having no deviations “straight lines”

IMMEDIATE 9 letters · adjective

having no intervening medium “an immediate influence”

EXTINCTION 10 letters · noun

no longer active; extinguished “the extinction of the volcano”

IMMEDIATELY 11 letters · adverb

without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening “he answered immediately”

UNINTERESTED 12 letters · adjective

having no care or interest in knowing “she appeared totally uninterested”

UNPRECEDENTED 13 letters · adjective

having no precedent; novel; never seen before “an unprecedented expansion in population and industry”

INSIGNIFICANCE 14 letters · noun

the quality of having little or no significance

MEANINGLESSNESS 15 letters · noun

a message that seems to convey no meaning

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, ZERO, NARY, MEAN, LESS, OPEN and PAST all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: Z → ZERO · N → NARY · M → MEAN · L → LESS · O → OPEN · P → PAST. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, BLACK, LEAST, GUESS, QUICK, SOLID and SMOKE all fit. The first letter settles most of it: B → BLACK · L → LEAST · G → GUESS · Q → QUICK · S → SOLID, SMOKE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, OUT, NEW, OFF, LOW, DRY and BUM all fit. The first letter settles most of it: O → OUT, OFF · N → NEW · L → LOW · D → DRY · B → BUM. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “noes” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “no” means

• adverb: referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present (“he was no heavier than a child”)
• adverb: not in any degree or manner; not at all (“he is no better today”)
• adverb: used to express refusal or denial or disagreement etc. or especially to emphasize a negative statement (“no, you are wrong”)
• adjective: (quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns for indicating a complete or almost complete lack or zero quantity of (“we have no bananas”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as NO, and words whose definition is NO. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.