The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STEELS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2013.
Makes tough crossword clue answers
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| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STEELS | 100 % | 6 |
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Crossword Answer definitions
STEELS noun- An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
- Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
- Varieties of this metal.
- (colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Extreme hardness or resilience.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (of mirrors) To back with steel.
- To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
- To press with a flat iron.
- To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
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