Dig for ore

The answer

MINE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MINE answer page.

Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MINE

Every other clue in this collection answered by MINE, most used first.

• "Dibs!" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Golconda - used 26 times, most recently in 1993
• Go for the gold? - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Coal source - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Ore source - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Not yours - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Colliery. - used 15 times, most recently in 1994
• Outfielder's call - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Outfielder's cry - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Greedy cry - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "Gimme!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Belonging to me - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Greedy one's cry - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• "Hands off!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Coal site - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• "__ eyes have seen the glory..." - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Gold source - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Lode setting - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Selfish cry - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Coal hole - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Excavation - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
• Miser's pronoun - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Pronoun. - used 7 times, most recently in 1997
• Selfish one's exclamation - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Abundant source - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Selfish shout - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Underground coal source - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Vein setting - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times
• Look for - SEEK, used 172 times

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