Does refinery work
The crossword clue "Does refinery work" is answered by SMELTS, a 6-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2013. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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SMELTS
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Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2013. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SMELTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SMELTS, most used first.
- Refines, as ore - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Refines - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Processes, as ore - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Fuses, as ore - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
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- Did lab work - TESTED, used 16 times
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