Enter a clue or pattern or both:
The Clue
Carpentry need (3 letter answer)
The Answer
NIL
Tags
Notes
The answer NIL is seen frequently, appearing about once every 50 puzzles.
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Definition
NIL as a noun:
1. (nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo) = a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"