Check for purity
The crossword clue "Check for purity" is answered by ASSAY, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ASSAY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ASSAY answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ASSAY
Every other clue in this collection answered by ASSAY, most used first.
- Evaluate - used 58 times, most recently in 2025
- Analyze - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Test for purity - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- Test - used 29 times, most recently in 2019
- Analyze, as ore - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Ore analysis - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Test, as ore - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Analyze ore - used 20 times, most recently in 2016
- Test one's metal - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Examine - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Analyze, as an alloy - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Chemical analysis - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Test ore - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- A miner test? - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
- Analyze for purity - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Evaluate, as ore - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Rate for purity - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Analysis - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Appraise - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Determine if it's gold - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Ore examination - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Put to a test - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Put to the test - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Free-for-all - MELEE, used 223 times
- Make up (for) - ATONE, used 192 times
- For all to hear - ALOUD, used 121 times
- Fit for a king - REGAL, used 114 times
- Play for time - STALL, used 113 times
- Check recipient - PAYEE, used 111 times
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