97.5% of a penny

The answer

ZINC

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ZINC answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ZINC

Every other clue in this collection answered by ZINC, most used first.

• Brass component - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Galvanizing metal - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
• Metal in pennies - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Galvanizing matter - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Metallic element - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
• Galvanizing agent - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Galvanizing stuff - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Bluish-white metal - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
• Component of brass - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Its atomic number is 30 - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Metal in brass - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Ointment element - used 6 times, most recently in 2006

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.

• Penny - CENT, used 275 times
• Penny ___ - ANTE, used 43 times
• Penny, perhaps - ANTE, used 21 times
• Penny-__ (small-time) - ANTE, used 19 times
• Word on a penny - CENT, used 19 times
• The Beatles' "Penny ___" - LANE, used 15 times

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