What stainless steel doesn't do
The crossword clue "What stainless steel doesn't do" is answered by RUST, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
RUST
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Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RUST
Every other clue in this collection answered by RUST, most used first.
- Reddish brown - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Sign of disuse - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Metal corrosion - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Corrode - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Oxidize - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Corrosion - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
- Deteriorate - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Iron oxide - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Sign of neglect - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Corrosion of iron - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Reddish-brown color - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Reddish-brown shade - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Reddish color. - used 8 times, most recently in 1975
- Fall shade - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Iron corrosion - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Lack of practice, metaphorically - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Oxidation - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Oxidation result - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Pipe problem - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Sign of aging - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Sign of corrosion - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Clunker feature - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
- Tin Woodman's trouble - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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- "So what ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 221 times
- "What ___ can I say?" - ELSE, used 116 times
- "Look what I did!" - TADA, used 103 times
- "What are the ___?" - ODDS, used 66 times
- "What a shame!" - ALAS, used 63 times
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