Impurity
The crossword clue "Impurity" is answered by DROSS, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DROSS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DROSS answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DROSS
Every other clue in this collection answered by DROSS, most used first.
- Refuse - used 45 times, most recently in 2024
- Rubbish - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Metal waste - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Slag - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Worthless stuff - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Smeltery refuse - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Smelting waste - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Smeltery waste - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Smelting residue - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Worthless material - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Metallic waste - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Waste - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Waste matter - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
- Scoria - used 7 times, most recently in 2003
- Smelter waste - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Smelting refuse - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
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- Jeans material - DENIM, used 135 times
- Thick - DENSE, used 120 times
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