The Clue
Contraction of nihil (3 letter answer)
The Answer
NIL
Tags
Notes
The answer NIL is seen frequently, appearing about once every 50 puzzles.
Related Clues
Nada
Naught
Next to ___
Nonexistent
Nothing
Zero
Zilch
Zip
Zippo
"___ desperandum": Horace
Goose egg
It's nothing
Not a thing
One side of a shutout
Big fat zero
Foreign football score
It means nothing
Shutout team's score
No-show's test score
"___ Sine Numine," Colo. motto
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"