Clues for the word "SHALE"
We've had 84 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 240 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on April 03, 2026.
Definition of shale
- n. - A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
- n. - A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
- v. t. - To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
Referring Clues
- Kind of oil
- Oil source
- Synfuel source
- Rock that may hold fossils
- Mudstone
- Petroleum source
- Brick ingredient
- Fossil medium
- Shelf material
- Fossil-yielding rock
- Fossil source
- Slate, originally
- Oil-yielding rock
- Fissile rock
- Sedimentary rock
- Thin-layered rock
- Source of oil
- Source of kerosene
- Oil-bearing rock
- River-delta material
- Fuel-yielding rock
- A source of oil
- Laminated rock
- Stratified rock
- Easily split rock
- Rock that splits easily
- Layered rock
- Rock made from layered mud
- Mud, after centuries
- Fine-grained rock
- Oil-producing rock
- Layered fissile rock
- Fine-grained sedimentary rock
- Most common sedimentary rock
- Slate source
- Clay product
- Oily rock
- Product of mud compaction
- Rock often containing quartz
- Scaly stone
- Fossil holder
- Kerosene source
- Possible source of petroleum
- Rock that may yield oil
- Fracking rock
- Rock used for flagstones
- Compressed clay
- Fracking target
- Mineral layer involved in fracking
- Something settled long ago?
- Flagstone material
- Hardly hard rock?
- Fracking material
- Rock that's "fracked"
- ___ oil
- Something fracked in fracking
- *Sedimentary rock
- Fuel oil source
- Fossil-yielding sedimentary rock
- It's formed by clay hardening
- Sedimentary clay rock, which may contain oil
- Mud, after compaction
- Oil-rich mineral
- Clay-based rock
- Small well in rock
- Oil-yielding mineral
- Stratified stone
- Rock from which slate is formed
- Easily cleaved rock
- Product of clay compaction
- Some mudrock
- Frackable rock
- Earth's crust, mostly
- Rock in which fossils can be found
- Rock source of petroleum
- Thin-layered sedimentary rock
- One source of oil
- Soft rock
- Rock involved in fracking
- Rock formed from clay
- Flaky rock
- Burgess ___ (rock bed noted for its fossils)
- Soft, sedimentary rock
- Cement ingredient
Last Seen In
- Daily American - April 03, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - March 27, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 10, 2025
- Mirror Mini - November 01, 2025
- LA Times - October 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 08, 2025
- New York Times - May 23, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 23, 2025
- New York Times - February 17, 2025
- Daily American - February 03, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 10, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 20, 2024
- Daily American - September 12, 2024
- Daily American - September 10, 2024
- USA Today - August 15, 2024
- USA Today - July 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - June 09, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 31, 2024
- New York Times - May 11, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - April 25, 2024
- Daily American - April 20, 2024
- Daily American - April 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 04, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - February 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 03, 2023
- New York Times - November 08, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 01, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 11, 2023
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