Fracking target

The answer

SHALE

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

Used 7 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2014. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SHALE

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

• Layered rock - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Fissile rock - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• Oil source - used 48 times, most recently in 2021
• Sedimentary rock - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Oil-bearing rock - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Fine-grained rock - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Oil-yielding rock - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Laminated rock - used 15 times, most recently in 2014
• Petroleum source - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Oil-producing rock - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Rock that's "fracked" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Fuel-yielding rock - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Easily split rock - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Flaky rock - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Fossil-yielding rock - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Stratified rock - used 6 times, most recently in 2006

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