Metals

Metal answers are mostly chemical elements and alloys, and clues often give a use or a colour. For alloys, look for a word such as mixture in the clue.

Most of them have 7 / 6 letters. The first letters that occur most often are T, C, B. Each answer links to its own page with more clues.

This list has 76 answers, from 3 to 10 letters; 49% of them have five to seven. In crosswords the category is usually signalled by a short opener such as “element”, “metal”, “light”, so the clue narrows the family before the crossings do. The members that catch solvers out are the rarer ones: TOMBAC (Brass-like metal), FERMIUM (Element 100) and BERKELIUM (Element 97).

Birds · Fish · Trees · Flowers · Animals · Fruit · Metals · Instruments · Plants · Insects ·