Clues for the word "ASSAY"
We've had 121 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 335 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on January 22, 2026.
Definition of assay
- n. - Trial; attempt; essay.
- n. - Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine.
- n. - Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
- n. - Tested purity or value.
- n. - The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
- n. - The alloy or metal to be assayed.
- v. - To try; to attempt; to apply.
- v. - To affect.
- v. - To try tasting, as food or drink.
- v. - To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition.
- v. i. - To attempt, try, or endeavor.
Referring Clues
- Ore analysis
- Analyze
- Examine
- Analysis
- Test, as ore
- Forty-niner's request
- Chemical analysis
- Test mineralogically
- Examine, as ore
- Test
- Judge the value of, as ore
- Test for gold content
- Analyze, as ore
- This is a test
- Analyze the composition of
- Evaluate
- Measure metal
- Analyze, as an alloy
- Analyze 19-Down
- Post-panning test
- Put to a test
- Drug test
- Analyze an alloy
- Evaluate ore samples
- Rate for purity
- Gold check
- Analyze the value of
- Test one's metal?
- Mineralogist's job
- Test one's metal
- Evaluate, as ore
- Appraise
- Determine the value of
- Prospector's test
- Ore evaluation
- Size up, as ore
- Judge the worth of
- Determine if it's gold
- Ore examination
- Analyze ore
- Test for content
- Test ore, e.g.
- Metallurgy test
- Put to the test
- Test ore
- A miner test?
- Analyze for gold content
- Check for content
- Analyze, as metal
- Analyze for smelting value
- Test for purity
- Post-panning purity probe
- Evaluate, as gold
- Mineral analysis
- Check for purity
- Examine ore
- Analyze rock
- Check ore
- Check rocks
- Analyze in a laboratory
- Test for quality
- Ore-al exam?
- Try to find out what's inside
- Analyze metals
- Analyze chemically
- Analyze gold ore
- Forty-niner's makeup test?
- Test for purity, as gold
- Analyze the makeup of
- Estimate metals
- Analyze, as metals
- Rock analysis
- Examine 28-Across
- Analyze (ore)
- Analysis of an ore
- Test for gold content, say
- Chem-lab procedure
- Attempt
- Put a value on
- Analyze, as alloys
- Chemistry exam?
- Check the ore
- Examine for value, as gold
- Evaluate, as minerals
- Instead of, for instance, a test of ore?
- Like to declare in test
- When, for example, to test for quality
- Test metal for quality
- Test purity of precious metal
- Test the purity of metals
- Lab test
- Test of a sort
- Test the soundness of one's mettle, say, when leading
- Test, as 6-Across
- 123 Down analysis
- Makeup exam?
- Very good marks, for example, in test
- Test, as 46-Across
- Test a southern state
- Evaluate, as metal
- Test contents of case, for example
- Metallurgist's analysis
- Size up
- Chemist's test
- Test, in a way
- Ore test
- Metal analysis
- Test the purity of
- Analyze for purity
- Test of one's metal
- Composition test
- Purity test
- Examine, as gold
- A miner test?
- Instead of, for instance, a test of ore?
- Appraise something
- Evaluate for purity
- Analyze, like gold
- Analyze, like ore
- Analyze, as 18-Down
- Metallurgist's evaluation
Last Seen In
- Daily American - January 22, 2026
- Daily American - January 18, 2026
- LA Times - January 12, 2026
- New York Times - November 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 18, 2025
- LA Times - February 27, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 05, 2025
- Daily American - January 31, 2025
- New York Times - January 29, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 24, 2025
- Daily American - January 23, 2025
- LA Times - January 09, 2025
- LA Times - December 26, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 13, 2024
- Daily American - October 10, 2024
- Daily American - October 02, 2024
- USA Today - September 24, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 27, 2024
- Daily American - August 23, 2024
- USA Today - August 10, 2024
- New York Times - August 07, 2024
- USA Today - July 05, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 27, 2024
- Daily American - March 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 29, 2024
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