Cinder
The crossword clue "Cinder" is answered by SLAG, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SLAG
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLAG answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
Other clues for SLAG
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLAG, most used first.
- Dross - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Smelting waste - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Smelting refuse - used 30 times, most recently in 2018
- Smelting residue - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Scoria - used 25 times, most recently in 2002
- Smeltery waste - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Metal refuse - used 18 times, most recently in 2018
- Refinery waste - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Smeltery refuse - used 18 times, most recently in 2020
- Refinery residue - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Foundry waste - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Dross of metal - used 11 times, most recently in 1993
- Metal waste - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Refinery refuse - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Smelter waste - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Smeltery residue - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Smelting byproduct - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Steel-mill refuse - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Waste - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Foundry refuse - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Smelter refuse - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Furnace waste - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Lava - used 7 times, most recently in 1983
- Smelter residue - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Smelting by-product - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Blast furnace by-product - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Coal waste - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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.
- Cinder-covered - ASHY, used 6 times
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