The Clue
Shutout team's score (3 letter answer)
The Answer
NIL
Tags
Notes
The answer NIL is seen frequently, appearing about once every 50 puzzles.
Related Clues
Nada
None
Nonexistent
Nothing
Zero
Zilch
Zip
Zippo
"___ desperandum": Horace
Goose egg
Not a thing
Nothing at all
Zip or zilch
Common cricket score
Common rugby score
Foreign football score
Start of Colo. motto
Bad score for a British team
"___ 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"