Clues for the word "MINING"
We've had 18 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 17 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 01, 2026.
Definition of mining
- p. pr. & vb. n. - of Mine
- v. i. - The act or business of making mines or of working them.
- a. - Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.
Referring Clues
- Potential space colony activity
- Collier's work
- Collier's work (collier's job)
- Excavation
- Debeers business
- Extracting ores
- Pit activity
- Field in which people pick their work?
- Taking a dig at?
- Looking for ore
- Digging in during a bygone dynasty
- Sorting through data
- Small car's no good in heavy industry
- The gold-digger's department of expertise?
- Coal industry
- One of the 3M Company's M's, originally
- Digging up, if not blowing up
- Extracting from the Earth
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 01, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - October 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 14, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - November 09, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - August 30, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 30, 2016
- New York Times - May 08, 2016
- New York Times - September 22, 2015
- Wall Street Journal - November 21, 2014
- Universal - October 30, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - September 25, 2014
- New York Times - November 07, 2013
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 23, 2011
- New York Times - May 24, 1998