Clues for the word "TIN"
We've had 536 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1389 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on April 11, 2025.
Definition of tin
- n. - An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
- n. - Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.
- n. - Money.
- v. t. - To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
Referring Clues
- Element #50
- Malaysian export
- Solder material
- Can's composition
- Shanty material
- Faience glaze ingredient
- Tenth anniversary gift
- Type of type
- 10th anniversary gift
- Kind of foil
- Food holder
- Like some ears
- An Oscar is mostly this
- The ___ Man
- Food container
- Some plating
- Word before ear or horn
- Old can material
- Soldier material?
- Component of bell metal
- 10th-anniversary gift
- Cake container
- Sold(i)er material
- Bolivian export
- Foil material
- Stannary stock
- Plating metal
- With 12-Down, source of metal for cans
- Pewter component
- Indonesian export
- Rustproofing agent
- Plating choice
- Part of the alloy britannia
- Can metal
- Sn, chemically speaking
- The ___ Man ("The Wizard of Oz" character)
- Plating material
- Composition of some cups
- Material for a whitesmith
- ___ Lizzie (Model T)
- Bronze metal
- ___ foil
- 10th-anniversary metal
- Canterbury can
- Pewter, in part
- Oscar statuette, mostly
- Candy holder
- Some smiths work in it
- Cookie holder
- Pewter ingredient
- Muffin holder
- Sn, in chemistry
- Kind of soldier
- ___ Pan Alley (songwriters' district)
- ___ can (destroyer, in Navy slang)
- Component of bronze
- Anniversary gift for the year after pottery
- ___ soldier
- Common alloy component
- "One ___ Soldier" (antiwar song)
- Altoids holder
- Major Indonesian export
- Its symbol is Sn
- Shack roof material
- ___ plate
- Plate material
- Roofing material
- Cookie store
- Ingredient in Delftware glazing
- Contents of a stannary mine
- Solder element
- Malleable element
- 10th anniversary metal
- Sardines holder
- Component of solder
- Bronze component
- Metal given on a tenth anniversary
- Anchovy holder
- What one man is made of, in Oz
- Oscars, mostly
- Metal rusted by tears in Oz
- Oz man's metal
- Silvery element
- Pewter metal
- Soldier or solder material
- A base metal
- "___ Cup" (Kevin Costner movie)
- Oscars, for the greatest part
- Lizzie's makeup?
- Element found in 16-, 27-, 50-, and 63-Across
- Solder component
- Sardine holder
- "Cat on a Hot ___ Roof"
- Container for some breath mints
- Tenth wedding anniversary gift
- Word that may precede the first word of this puzzle's theme answers
- Can stuff
- Soldier material
- 10th anniversary material
- See 67-Across
- Atomic number 50
- Element obtained from cassiterite
- Soft metal
- What whitesmiths work with
- Oscar material, mostly
- Can, in Cambridge
- Shortest-named element
- ___ Pan Alley
- Star material?
- Main element in pewter
- Like musically challenged ears?
- Biscuit holder
- Spice holder
- Cigarette holder
- Squash court telltale
- Element whose symbol is Sn
- Cookie container
- Element between indium and antimony in the periodic table
- Its atomic number is half of fermium's
- Component of pewter
- Element with twice as many protons as manganese
- Makeup of some old soldiers?
- It can be used when making solders and soldiers
- Sn, on a table
- Anchovy container
- Like the Wizard's heartless visitor
- Metal in solder
- Woodsman's makeup
- Like some ears or gods
- Can material
- Element in pewter
- Kind of ear or soldier
- 10th anniversary symbol
- Tuna container
- Sn, on the periodic table
- Foil lead-in
- Metal in pewter
- Window-glass component
- Badge metal
- Sardine container
- Bendable element
- Metal in an Oscar
- Baking pan
- Two-thirds of a canine star
- "Cat on a Hot ___ Roof"
- Type of soldier
- Sn
- Common foil material
- Tenth anniversary gift, traditionally
- What a copper badge is made of?
- Kind of badge or can
- It's in the can?
- Kind of can or cup
- Its symbol in Sn
- Woodman's material
- What some soldiers are made of
- 10th-anniversary material
- Like a heartless man of film
- Type of ear
- Tenth-anniversary gift, traditionally
- Like the heartless man
- Word with foil or can
- Pewter part
- Jack Haley's metal
- Kind of badge or cup
- Type of foil
- Muffin pan
- Soldier's makeup?
- Like some plates
- Cup metal
- Type of plate or soldier
- Cheap roofing material
- Oz Woodman's makeup
- Part of bronze
- Element with the shortest name
- Badge material
- Tobacco holder
- Bronze, in part
- Sn, in the lab
- Tenth-anniversary metal
- Composition of Jack Haley's Oz character
- Corrosion-resistant plating
- "___ Cup" (1996 Kevin Costner movie)
- -
- Window-glass ingredient
- Stannum
- Light metal
- Container for Altoids
- Oz man's makeup
- Can, in Canterbury
- Like Oz's woodman
- --- Pan Alley
- Brit's can
- Oz visitor's makeup
- Popcorn gift container
- Tenth-anniversary gift
- Solder ingredient
- Metal with the symbol "Sn"
- Metal in some bronze
- Canister
- Woodman's composition
- Tel ______
- Metal
- Can makeup
- Can across the pond
- Beggar's receptacle
- Cake ___
- Like an Oz man
- When repeated, hero of children's lit
- British container
- Composition of some stars
- The stuff some soldiers are made of
- 50 on the periodic table
- Element of cavity protection
- Mint holder
- Malleable metal
- Pie dish
- Breath mint holder
- Breath-mints buy
- Badge makeup
- Cassiterite yield
- Bronze ingredient
- Haley's 'Oz' costume
- Woodman's makeup?
- Container for cookies
- Chemical element with the shortest name
- With 28-Down, jalopy
- About 85 percent of pewter
- With 55-Down, destroyer
- Haley's Oz costume
- Bauxite product
- Mint container
- Lightweight metal
- With 6-Down, source of element #50
- Shallow pan
- Sardine can
- Spam holder
- Plating option
- Snowy's owner, when doubled
- Inexpensive roofing material
- Part of pewter
- Tenth anniversary material
- Like an Oz resident's makeup
- 50 on a table
- Can or cup metal
- Keeper for kippers
- Pewter base
- Oscar statuette's makeup, mostly
- Sn, to a chemist
- It might take the cake
- ___ Pan Alley (songwriters' district)
- Kitchen foil material
- Toy soldier material, sometimes
- Container
- Its atomic symbol is Sn
- Toy soldier material
- See 61-Down
- Element of surprise in this puzzle's theme answers
- Kind of foil or soldier
- Like the Oz woodsman
- Star material
- [10]
- Can matter
- With 36 Across, rapper's woe
- Type of foil or can
- Silvery-white metal
- Cookie sheet
- Can to a brit.
- With 63-Down, title boy in a 2011 Spielberg film
- Western star makeup
- Part of the alloy britannium
- Man of Oz?
- Its atomic number is 50
- Altoids container
- ___ lizzie
- Whitesmith's stock
- It's in bronze
- Aluminum siding: slang
- Man with Dorothy?
- Penny whistle material
- Roof material in a Williams play title
- London can
- Pie holder
- Word with Man or can
- Its chemical symbol is Sn
- Shortest-name element
- Star material, maybe
- Baker's need
- Flatfoot's badge material
- English can
- Material for little soldiers
- Main ingredient in an Oscar
- Roof material
- "Man" in "The Wizard of Oz"
- Can composition
- Foil metal
- Dog, Part 2 or 3
- Foil material, once
- Fancy food container
- Stannite yield
- Whitesmith's medium
- Sort of a soldier or hat?
- Material in many camping utensils
- Can component
- Can
- Oz's ___ Man
- Common metal
- Cup or can material
- Roofing material, sometimes
- Mints holder
- Type of cup or soldier
- Paul Revere medium
- Material for some cups
- With 60 Down, legend in one's own mind
- Material for some cans
- 'Sn' element
- Spam may be in it
- Metal in bronze
- Big natural resource in Malaysia
- Metal in much window glass
- Sardine can material
- Makeup for a "Wizard of Oz" character?
- Pewter, mostly
- Makeup of some ceilings
- Element in some solder
- Bit of bronze
- Can or pan material
- Pie pan material
- Spam's place
- About 92% of britannium
- ___ can
- Gift on a 10th anniversary
- Big Australian export
- Can of food
- Oscar composition, mostly
- Flexible metal
- Can for food
- With 78-Down, tone deafness
- Like the woodsman of Oz
- Cannister
- Container whose letters appear in "container"
- Solder stuff
- Kind of cup or horn
- Oscar, mostly
- Badge or cup metal
- Metal in window glass
- Common can material
- Spam container
- Corrosion-resistant coating
- Common alloy
- Anniversary gift between pottery and steel
- Word with foil
- Tuna can
- Pie pan
- The ___ man in "The Wizard of Oz"
- What one of the Wizard of Oz characters was made from
- Material of Dorothy's woodsman friend
- Material for Dorothy's woodsman
- Baking container
- Material for a "Wizard of Oz" character
- Sheriff's star material
- Element after indium
- Preserves protector, in Paddington
- Only three-letter element
- Can it turn north?
- Metallic element
- Element with the symbol Sn
- With 65-across, lack of musical ability
- Solder material, or soldier material
- The only three-letter element
- Only three-letter chemical element
- Metal container
- Bowie band ___ Machine
- America "___ Man"
- Kind of "Man" to America
- Cult "Trancing like a cat on a hot ___ shack"
- Reeves Gabrels band ___ Machine
- Stevie Ray Vaughan "___ Pan Alley"
- America "Oz never did give nothing to the ___ man"
- David Bowie band ___ Machine
- Heating element
- Looking silvery, it does a bit of glinting
- A mined extract of platinum
- It's used in electroplating
- Less than a tiny container
- Metal element
- An element of procrastination
- Like silver, it meant money
- Preserve in gelatine
- It's up north that this may be mined
- Metal used in electroplating
- Element used in electroplating
- Smaller than a tiny metal box
- Element
- Tiny container?
- May have been Cornish, but it's up north
- An element of rust protection
- Metallic
- It's up North, this style of loaf
- Rust-free extract of platinum
- It's canny to keep biscuits in one
- Metal - can
- Kippers container
- Element, symbol Sn
- It's between indium and antimony on the periodic table
- 1 down, symbol Sn
- Silvery-white metallic element
- A fool about money
- Before pocket money's worthless
- Container for kippers
- Solder or soldier material
- What Sn represents
- Toy soldier makeup
- Soldier adjective
- Pewter's chief constituent
- British can
- Container at a cookie exchange
- TV dog, Rin Tin ___
- A loaf of bread can
- Money container
- Woodman's makeup, in Oz
- Metal found in bronze and pewter
- Soldier metal
- Cupcake holder
- Container for Christmas cookies
- ___ ear
- Whitesmiths work with it
- Old star makeup
- ___ ear (lack of musical ability)
- Cup material
- An element of tininess
- Sn, symbolically
- Container of explicit instructions
- Begin to type?
- Food can
- Antimony's neighbor on the periodic table
- Continental element?
- Soft metal in pewter
- Roofing metal
- Heating element?
- Coating for many cans
- Cheshire can
- Mushy peas container
- Metal in an Oscar statuette
- An element of impertinence
- An element of distinction
- Toy soldier's makeup
- Sn, to chemists
- Breath mint container
- "Wizard of Oz" character material
- Altoids receptacle
- Can it be extracted from platinum?
- With 53-Across, jalopy
- Can it turn north?
- A tiny can?
- Metal in foil
- The electroplating element
- Such hats an old Tommy may remember
- Most of pewter
- Material for a "Wizard of Oz" "man"
- It's up north that it's slang for money
- An element is just a tiny piece
- Shed roof metal
- Traditional 10th anniversary metal
- "The Wizard of Oz" man's makeup?
- Material for many cans
- Big export of Myanmar
- Common fluorine partner
- Word before Pan, Man or can
- Sn, in a table
- Food drive donation
- ___ star
- It's above lead on tables
- Can require some heating
- Element in fire extinguishers?
- An element of continued centralisation
- Muffin ___
- It’s under germanium on the periodic table
- Can makeup or roofing material
- Element used up in ignition
- K) Can material
- Element with the fewest letters
- Traditional tenth anniversary material
- Easy-to-bend metal
- Fiftieth element
- Container of mints
- Metallic derivative of platinum
- ___ Woodman (visitor to Oz)
- Small container
- ___ Man (Dorothy's "heartless" friend)
- Caviar container
- What pewter is, mostly
- ___ Man ("The Wizard of Oz" character)
- Cookie box
- Word with "can" or "Man"
- Oz's ___ Woodman
- Hidden element in this clue
- Spam might be kept in it
- Metal in some foil
- A roof may be made of it
- Metal used to coat sheets of steel
- Less than a tiny box
- What's mixed with bismuth, lead and cadmium to make cerrosafe
- Woodman's makeup in "The Wizard of Oz"
- In Latin, it's "stannum"
- Material easily mistaken for aluminum
- Main component of britannium
- Container for mints
- Metal present in this clue
- Metal with the chemical symbol Sn
- Dorothy's friend, the ___ Man
- It's up north that it may be mined
- Container of sewing supplies or butter cookies
- Only chemical element whose name fits this answer's length
- Metal no longer used in making kitchen foil
- Element with the chemical symbol Sn
- Tiny container?
- Gourmet popcorn container
- Metal derived from cassiterite
- Can material, sometimes
- Bronze element
- Ceiling metal
- Cheap metal material
- Container for cookies or sewing supplies
- Commonly mined material that's relatively rare in Earth's crust (about 2 p.p.m.)
- Woodsman material, in Oz
- Punched metal
- Continental container?
- Metal that "cries" when bent
- Kind of roof or ceiling
- Canning material
- 21-Down material, sometimes
- Component of pewter and solder
- What's mined in a stannary
- Periodic table element, or a container
- Sn, chemically
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - April 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 31, 2025
- New York Times - March 31, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 28, 2025
- USA Today - March 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 16, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 01, 2025
- New York Times - February 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 19, 2025
- Mirror Mini - February 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 10, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 03, 2025
- New York Times - January 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 20, 2025
- USA Today - January 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 23, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 20, 2024
- USA Today - December 12, 2024
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