Fuse, as ore
The crossword clue "Fuse, as ore" is answered by SMELT, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1957. 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
SMELT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SMELT answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SMELT
Every other clue in this collection answered by SMELT, most used first.
- Silvery fish - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Refine, as ore - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Refine ore - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Silvery food fish - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Food fish - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Refine, as metal - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Process, as ore - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Refine - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Refine metal - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Small silvery fish - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Extract metal from - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Small fish. - used 13 times, most recently in 2004
- Fish. - used 12 times, most recently in 1973
- Troutlike fish - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- "He who ___ it, dealt it" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Small food fish - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Get the lead out? - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Do refinery work - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Process ore - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Sparling - used 8 times, most recently in 1993
- Great Lakes fish - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Salmonlike fish - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Silver fish - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Analyze, as ore - ASSAY, used 25 times
- Fuse - UNITE, used 25 times
- Ore analysis - ASSAY, used 23 times
- Test, as ore - ASSAY, used 22 times
- Analyze ore - ASSAY, used 20 times
- Ore deposits - LODES, used 17 times
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