Rust compound

The answer

OXIDE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OXIDE answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OXIDE

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

• Rust, for one - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Nitrous ___ (laughing gas) - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Zinc ___ - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Chemical compound. - used 26 times, most recently in 2010
• Iron ___ (rust) - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Rust, e.g. - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Nitrous ___ - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
• Rust, for example - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Zinc __ ointment - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Corundum, for one - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Rust or lime - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Word with zinc or nitrous - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
• Ferric ___ (rust) - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Rust, chemically - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Rust, for instance - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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