Clues for the word "KEROSENE"
We've had 34 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 61 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on October 31, 2025.
Definition of kerosene
- n. - An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series.
Referring Clues
- Camper's supply
- Lamp filler
- Lantern filler
- Lamp fuel
- Some rocket fuel
- Jet fuel component
- Lamplighter?
- Lamp oil
- Coal oil
- It's called paraffin oil in the U.K.
- Camp combustible
- Early Rockefeller product
- Type of fuel
- Camper's fuel, perhaps
- Lantern fuel
- Lamp liquid
- Rocket fuel
- Fuel that built the Rockefeller fortune
- Jet fuel, mainly
- Lantern liquid
- Camper's fuel supply
- Paraffin oil
- One reeks terribly of paraffin
- Engineer keen to get hold of advanced jet fuel
- Sore knee massaged with paraffin
- Fuel
- Standard Oil's first stock-in-trade
- Lantern fill
- Liquid fuel
- Camping fuel
- What once lit street lamps
- Fuel for flight
- Fuel oil
- Heating fuel
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - October 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 02, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 15, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 15, 2023
- Mirror Daily - April 13, 2023
- New York Times - March 22, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 17, 2022
- Washington Post Classic - December 03, 2017
- Mirror Daily - June 02, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - February 01, 2017
- Mirror Daily - June 02, 2016
- New York Times - May 01, 2016
- Universal - September 11, 2015
- Guardian Quick - August 08, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 24, 2014
- LA Times - February 15, 2014
- Guardian Quiptic - December 09, 2013
- Guardian Quiptic - April 30, 2012
- Chicago Reader - January 06, 2012
- And in 31 more crossword puzzles...