Ointment element
The crossword clue "Ointment element" is answered by ZINC, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 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 6 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 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
- Metal in brass - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Fly in the ointment - SNAG, used 75 times
- Soothing ointment - BALM, used 57 times
- Ointment - NARD, used 51 times
- Element #10 - NEON, used 39 times
- Ointment - BALM, used 29 times
- Gaseous element. - NEON, used 26 times
Search the clue collection
Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.