Clues for the word "GOLD"
We've had 170 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 246 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 24, 2025.
Definition of gold
- n. - Alt. of Goolde
- v. t. - A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.
- v. t. - Money; riches; wealth.
- v. t. - A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.
- v. t. - Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.
Referring Clues
- Million-selling
- Like some charge cards
- Klondike strike
- Precious metal
- Credit card color
- Like some records
- First-place
- Olympian's quest
- Fool's ___ (iron pyrites)
- Basket-of-___ (yellow perennial)
- Top prize
- Kind of standard
- Symbol of goodness
- Rumpelstiltskin's output
- Filling material
- Expensive tooth filling material
- The color of honey
- Element #79
- Riches
- Yellow metallic element
- Medal metal
- Charge card color
- Cause of a worldwide 19th century fever
- Element whose symbol is Au
- #1 honor
- Rush order?
- Valuable reserve
- Au, on the periodic table
- Fort Knox supply
- First-place medal
- Prospector's find
- How hit records go
- Winner's medal metal
- Medal material, maybe
- Standard material?
- Olympian's dream
- It was recently sought after in Athens
- Olympic prize
- Alchemy objective
- What some hearts are made of
- Certain metallic color
- "Lonely Boy" singer
- Rush quest, often
- 50th wedding anniversary gift
- 50th anniversary gift, or British Columbia river
- Olympian's favorite color
- Forty-niner's quest
- Kind of dust
- Midas' desire
- Gift from 1-Down
- Gift of the Magi
- Top medal
- Panner's find
- Olympian's goal
- See 38-Across
- Panning find
- Prospector's hope
- Olympian's prize
- Prospector's dream
- Olympian's hope
- Victor's color
- 'Au' element
- With 64-Across, baseball fielding prize
- ______ River ( BC ghost town)
- Vein material?
- Earring metal
- Rustproof metal
- Something struck
- Prospector's prize
- Doubloon material
- Alchemist's goal
- [50]
- This puzzle's theme color
- Knox blocks
- Type of tooth or chain
- Type of brick
- Top medal metal, usually
- Prospector's desire
- Rumpelstiltskin's alias: Mr. ___
- "A Deadly Shade of ___"
- Prospector's quest
- Fever-causing metal
- Winner's prize
- Alchemist's quest
- Top prize at the Olympics
- Top Olympic prize
- A gift of the Magi
- Klondike lure
- Like Poe's bug
- Alchemist's obsession
- Cavity filling option
- Krugerrand composition
- ____ River, British Columbia mine site
- Heart of ____ (Neil Young hit)
- See 7-Across
- Winner's award
- Top Olympic medal
- Kind of necklace
- Certain Olympic medal
- Rush "Seven Cities of ___"
- Woman after a man's money
- '72 CCR compilation
- One of the Magi's gifts
- See 24
- First attempt at numbers
- Thin sheet of precious metal
- Like successful disk from disheartened exponent of 24 down
- Guide leader aged something like 3 or 5
- First virtuous, then venerable ...
- Au - metal
- Picture card's last, cutting the queen of clubs?
- Element (Au)
- Grand, historic, upstanding police force accepting service's premier award for record success
- First
- Tokens of marriage
- Delicate stuff needed when lead wasted in game
- First for Goliath - part with David's head
- Cause of a rush
- Discovery at Sutter's Mill
- ... No. 79, first, and ...
- Good antique metal
- "Wealth" is Googled on a regular basis
- Good antique, a gift from a king
- Dweller in 22 across holds a pound, not 15
- Work of 20 or composer with ovaritis an alternative
- General IQ getting on for fifty, on target
- Stuff in a safe, maybe
- Panner's target
- One of the gifts of the Magi
- Valuable metal
- Grand antique, precious
- The champion's standard of goodness
- ... or German veteran
- Miner's find
- Neil Young's "Heart of ___"
- Ring material
- Government leader, getting on a bit, produces wealth
- Colourful standard of goodness
- Ring metal
- Rio quest, 2016
- Premium podium prize
- Highest standard
- The colour of Donna Tartt's 9?
- Sutter's Mill discovery
- Most malleable metal
- Best medal at the archery centre
- Shelley's "living god" that "rules in scorn"
- It's measured in karats
- American Olympian's quest
- Medal for 30-Across
- Yellow metal
- Olympics goal
- Medal color
- Tartt's _finch, Fleming's _finger?
- Olympic stuff?
- A lucky strike at archery?
- Word before "record" or "leaf"
- Turn left at Land's End, and there's a sort of mine
- Word before "standard" or "star"
- ___ standard
- Metal whose symbol is Au, and what can be mined in 62-Across
- Au
- Color on the Jamaican flag
- Metal measured in karats
- Metal
- Metal that can be drawn into a wire an atom wide
- See 39-Across
- Like some expensive bars
- Yellowish metal
- Quest for some athletes
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 24, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 22, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 02, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 02, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 11, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 25, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 14, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 07, 2025
- Daily American - December 29, 2024
- Daily American - November 11, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 25, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 13, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 11, 2024
- LA Times - September 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 23, 2024
- New York Times - April 17, 2024
- Mirror Mini - March 15, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 05, 2024
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