Clues for the word "MINERAL"
We've had 51 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 92 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on September 16, 2025.
Definition of mineral
- v. i. - An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
- v. i. - A mine.
- v. i. - Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).
- a. - Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
- a. - Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.
Referring Clues
- Feldspar, e.g.
- 20 Questions category
- Old quiz show category
- Kind of deposit
- Children's game classification
- Word with spring or water
- Kind of water
- Contents of a lode
- With 61-Across, prospectors' targets
- Neither animal nor vegetable
- Twenty questions category
- Quartz, for one
- Quartz or feldspar
- Twenty Questions choice
- Galena, for one
- Old quiz-show category
- "Twenty Questions" category
- Feldspar or cinnabar
- Word with oil or water
- Geologist's concern
- Ore
- Geologist's concern
- Inorganic
- Word before oil or water
- ___ water
- ___ oil
- Manila alternative, in a guessing game
- Zinc or iron
- ___ spring
- Many a dietary supplement
- Metal ore
- Buffalo Tom song about a chemical substance?
- Texas band inspired by an ore?
- Texas band inspired by a vitamin ally?
- ie trawlerman's fishy spring produce?
- Inorganic substance
- Inorganic matter
- Made from inorganic matter
- Supplement component
- Possibly, rock goddess not very ladylike at first
- Boatman's really odd, being neither animal nor vegetable
- What an anemic person might lack
- Table salt, for instance
- A drink the pit worker has a name for
- The digger has a name for it
- Ore, for instance
- Possibly remain, left behind for a drink
- Quartz, e.g.
- Iron or sulfur
- Many, I learn, ordered a soft drink
- Talc or mica
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 03, 2025
- Daily American - September 06, 2024
- Daily American - July 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 29, 2024
- Daily American - April 19, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 04, 2023
- Mirror Daily - September 09, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 30, 2023
- Mirror Daily - June 01, 2023
- Mirror Daily - May 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - May 04, 2023
- USA Today - April 20, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - March 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 01, 2022
- Daily American - September 06, 2022
- LA Times - August 26, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - August 16, 2022
- Daily American - July 16, 2022
- New York Times - December 02, 2021
- And in 62 more crossword puzzles...