"He who ___ it, dealt it"
The crossword clue ""He who ___ it, dealt it"" is answered by SMELT, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
SMELT
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Used 11 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 8 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.
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- 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
- 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
- Fuse, as ore - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- 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
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