Heavy metal
The crossword clue "Heavy metal" is answered by IRON, a 4-letter entry. Used 23 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
IRON
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IRON answer page.
Used 23 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 8 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.
- URANIUM (7 uses in xd)
- OSMIUM (4 uses in xd)
Other clues for IRON
Every other clue in this collection answered by IRON, most used first.
- Press - used 284 times, most recently in 2026
- Pressing need - used 116 times, most recently in 2026
- Wrinkle remover - used 106 times, most recently in 2026
- Golf club - used 80 times, most recently in 2022
- Monopoly token - used 49 times, most recently in 2024
- Steel ingredient - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
- Unyielding - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Laundry appliance - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Magnetic metal - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Clothes-pressing appliance - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Metal in steel - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Press agent? - used 32 times, most recently in 2019
- Golf bag item - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Common metal - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
- Inflexible - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Fairway club - used 27 times, most recently in 2022
- Fe, on the periodic table - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Remove wrinkles - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Steel component - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- De-wrinkle - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Press clothes - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Cast-__ skillet - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- De-crease? - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Fe - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Barbell metal - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Hemoglobin component - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Nutrient in spinach - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Heavy reading? - TOME, used 104 times
- Heavy burden - ONUS, used 102 times
- Metal sources - ORES, used 70 times
- Heavy book - TOME, used 69 times
- Heavy hammer - MAUL, used 65 times
- Heavy weights - TONS, used 65 times
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