Waste matter
The crossword clue "Waste matter" is answered by DROSS, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 5 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 6 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- EGESTA (1 uses in xd)
- SULLAGE (1 uses in xd)
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
- Impurity - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Metallic waste - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Waste - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- 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
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.
- Waste maker - HASTE, used 94 times
- "The Waste Land" poet - ELIOT, used 63 times
- "__ makes waste" - HASTE, used 51 times
- Waste time - DALLY, used 33 times
- Subject matter - TOPIC, used 29 times
- Grill waste - ASHES, used 26 times
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