Answer to "Fossil preserver" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word AMBER , but the solution may also be TAR which is one of the most recent solution (2015 in New York Times).

Fossil preserver crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
AMBER	50 %	5
TARPIT	30 %	6
TAR	10 %	3
RESIN	10 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fossil preserver

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• amber
• resin
• tar
• fossil fuel
• autochthonous
• medium
• specimen
• thyme camphor
• thymic acid
• thymol
• ice
• salt

Crossword Answer definitions

AMBER noun

1. Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
2. A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
3. A yellow-orange colour.
4. The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
5. The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.

AMBER verb

1. To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
2. To preserve in amber.
3. To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
4. To take on the yellow colour of amber.

AMBER adjective

1. Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result AMBER

• Fossil resin
• Resin
• Waves of grain color
• "Jurassic Park" mosquito preserver
• The color of honey
• Forever __
• Insect-trapping goo
• Honey-colored
• Old bug-trapper
• Yellowish-brown

More clues leading to the result TARPIT

• La Brea feature
• Bone collector
• Dinosaur bone collector
• Mammoth trap?
• Sticky situation?
• Good place to hunt fossils
• Rich source of fossils, perhaps
• Mammoth trapper
• Mammoth catcher
• La Brea attraction

More clues leading to the result TAR

• Black gunk
• Defile
• Highway-crew need
• Macadam material
• Pitch
• Pitch yielder
• Roofing material
• Seafarer
• Sticky black stuff
• __ Heel (North Carolinian)

More clues leading to the result RESIN

• "Jurassic Park" mosquito preserver
• Amber
• Amber, for one
• Plant exudation
• Tree secretion
• Pine exudation
• Varnish ingredient
• Gum
• Pine product
• Bug trapper