Crossword clue
Dross crossword clue
3 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "dross", from 4 letters up to 8, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Count your squares, then read one row. The shortest thing that fits is SLAG at 4; the longest is IMPURITY at 8.
| Letters | Answers |
|---|---|
| 4 |
|
| 6 |
|
| 8 |
|
What this list looks like
SLAG fills a 4-square slot, and a compact answer is usually the one a crossword wants.
Which one does the setter mean?
Four squares is SLAG. It is the technical term for what this clue describes and the answer most often wanted, though solvers sometimes hesitate over it because of the word's other, unrelated British sense.
How these differ
All three are what is left when something valuable has been taken out. SLAG is the waste that floats on molten metal and is skimmed off, and the heaps beside old mines are named for it. SCORIA is the same idea in geology, the rough cindery rock left by lava, and in metallurgy is close to a synonym for slag. IMPURITY is the general word and the only one that describes the contaminant rather than the residue. Dross itself moved from the literal to the figurative early and now usually means rubbish.
Still stuck? Filter by the letters you have
Got a crossing letter? The word finder searches the same dictionary as this page, with a box for the first letter, the last, and anything in between.
Where these answers come from
No puzzle was consulted to build this page. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “dross” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 2 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.
Common questions
- What is the answer to the crossword clue "dross"?
- There is more than one. 3 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares is SLAG. It is the technical term for what this clue describes and the answer most often wanted, though solvers sometimes hesitate over it because of the word's other, unrelated British sense.
- How many letters is the answer to "dross"?
- Anything from 4 to 8. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.