Coal waste
The crossword clue "Coal waste" is answered by SLAG, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 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 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- Cinder - used 12 times, most recently in 2008
- 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
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.
- Waste allowance - TRET, used 117 times
- Allowance for waste - TRET, used 39 times
- German coal region - SAAR, used 29 times
- Coal scuttles - HODS, used 28 times
- Coal carriers - HODS, used 23 times
- Coal source - MINE, used 22 times
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