Rust or lime
The crossword clue "Rust or lime" is answered by OXIDE, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OXIDE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OXIDE answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 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 compound - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- 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
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.
- Rust - ERODE, used 10 times
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