Metal in brass
The crossword clue "Metal in brass" is answered by ZINC, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ZINC
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ZINC answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 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
- 97.5% of a penny - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Its atomic number is 30 - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- 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.
- Metal sources - ORES, used 70 times
- Big brass - TUBA, used 69 times
- Heavy metal - LEAD, used 60 times
- Big brass instrument - TUBA, used 48 times
- Magnetic metal - IRON, used 38 times
- Put the pedal to the metal - SPED, used 36 times
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