Enter a clue or pattern or both:

The Clue

Mercury, for one (5 letter answer)

The Answer

METAL

Tags


Notes

The answer METAL is seen frequently, appearing about once every 170 puzzles.

Related Clues

Bullion
___ detector
Lead, for one
Actinium or rubidium
Bismuth, e.g.
Bullion, e.g.
Cerium or cesium
Composed type
Conductive substance
Elemental substance
Erbium or cobalt
Gold or copper
Gold or silver
Homophone for mettle
Iridium, e.g.
Kind of detector
Lithium, e.g.
Mercury or cobalt
Music genre
Palladium, e.g.
Rock genre
Rocker's heavy ___
Silver or copper
Silver or gold
Tin or copper
Zinc or zirconium
Black Sabbath's genre
Get a lode of this!
Good conductor of electricity
"Heavy" music genre
One may be precious
Headbanging music
Potassium or sodium, e.g.
Quonset hut material
Rock genre, informally
Rock music genre
Rock music subgenre
Rock and roll genre
No-no in a microwave oven
Ozzy Osbourne's music, informally
Ozzy Osbourne's music, for short
Like most golf woods, nowadays

Definition

METAL as a noun:

1. (metallic element, metal) = any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.
2. (alloy, metal) = a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an alloy of zinc and copper"

METAL as a verb:

1. cover with metal

METAL as an adjective:

1. (metallic, metal) = containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal; "a metallic compound"; "metallic luster"; "the strange metallic note of the meadow lark, suggesting the clash of vibrant blades"- Ambrose Bierce