The Clue
Get the lead out? (5 letter answer)
The Answer
SMELT
Tags
Notes
The answer SMELT is seen frequently, appearing about once every 170 puzzles.
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Fuse
Refine
Sparling
Food fish
Fuse ore
Fuse, as ore
Fuse ores
Offputting fish?
Refine metal
Refine, as a metal
Refine, as metal
Refine, as ore
Relative of the salmon
Silvery fish
Small fish
Take the lead from?
Treat ore
Troutlike fish
Fish eaten whole
Put through a furnace
Silvery food fish
Silvery little fish
Small food fish
Small, silvery fish
Use a blast furnace
Get the lead out, in a way
Got a whiff of, old-style
Sensed odors, old-style
Definition
SMELT as a noun:
1. small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
2. small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
SMELT as a verb:
1. extract (metals) by heating
SMELL as a verb:
1. inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
2. emit an odor; "The soup smells good"
3. smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells"