The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SHALE which also is the latest solution we found used in Universal uClick in 2021.
Oil source crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SHALE | 31 % | 5 |
| OLIVE | 30 % | 5 |
| SESAME | 6 % | 6 |
| PEANUT | 4 % | 6 |
| CORN | 3 % | 4 |
| SOY | 3 % | 3 |
| LINSEED | 2 % | 7 |
| SOYBEAN | 2 % | 7 |
| CANOLA | 2 % | 6 |
| OLIVES | 1 % | 6 |
| WHALE | 1 % | 5 |
| FLAXSEED | 1 % | 8 |
| COCONUT | 1 % | 7 |
| PALM | 1 % | 4 |
| ARABIA | 1 % | 6 |
| WELL | 1 % | 4 |
| COD | 1 % | 3 |
| FLAX | 1 % | 4 |
| EMU | 1 % | 3 |
| CODFISH | 1 % | 7 |
| SESAMESEEDS | 1 % | 11 |
| SOYBEANS | 1 % | 8 |
| SOYA | 1 % | 4 |
| ARTSALE | 1 % | 7 |
| MIDDLEEAST | 1 % | 10 |
| IRAN | 1 % | 4 |
| SESAMES | 1 % | 7 |
| NEATSFOOT | 1 % | 9 |
| OMAN | 1 % | 4 |
| WAILBLUBBER | 1 % | 11 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Oil source
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- petroleum
- crude oil
- olive
- cod
- shale
- flaxseed
- linseed
- soybean
- flax
- peanut
- soy
- arabia
Crossword Answer definitions
SHALE noun- A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
- A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
- To take off the shell or coat of.
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 SHALE
- Claylike rock
- Fissile rock
- Oil source
- Oil-yielding rock
- Fine-grained rock
- Fragile layered rock
- Product of mud compaction
- Rock used in fracking
- Sedimentary rock
- Fuel-yielding rock
More clues leading to the result OLIVE
- "Thimble Theatre" name
- Martini garnish
- Place for a pimento
- Stuffed salad ingredient
- __ branch (peace offering)
- Cocktail garnish
- Kind of drab
- Miss Oyl?
- Miss Oyl
- Popeye's gal
More clues leading to the result SESAME
- Bagel seed
- Elmo's street
- Tahini base
- Bagel variety
- Bagel type
- Opening word?
- Bagel choice
- Kind of bagel
- ___ noodles
- Street where Big Bird lives
More clues leading to the result PEANUT
- Goober
- Pet name for a little one
- Packing ___
- Kind of gallery
- PayDay tidbit
- Boiled or dry-roasted snack item
- Jimmy Carter's pre-politics legume
- Cooking oil source
- Type of plant popularized by George Washington Carver
- Mr. with a monocle
More clues leading to the result CORN
- Foot fault?
- Clambake item
- Edible ears
- Preserve with salt, like beef
- Hackneyed art
- -home humor
- "Hee Haw" humor
- Fritter material
- Toe woe
- Kind of dog?
More clues leading to the result SOY
- Tofu base
- Bac-O's, essentially
- Worcestershire sauce ingredient
- Bean or sauce
- Sauce for a wok
- "What if ___ milk is just regular milk introducing itself in Spanish?"
- Cheese ingredient, for some vegans
- Asian cooking sauce
- Kind of milk
- Kind of non-dairy milk
More clues leading to the result LINSEED
- Type of oil
- Type of oil used in putty
- Oil source
- Paint oil
- Paint oil source
- Kind of oil
- Kind of oil or cake
- Type of oil used in paint
- Oil used in paint
- Oil in paints
More clues leading to the result SOYBEAN
- Legume in tempeh
- Protein source
- Legume used for fodder
- Vegetable protein source
- Third-leading U.S. crop behind corn and wheat
- Veggie curd source
- Protein-rich legume
- Oil source
- Nutrient-rich legume
- Sauce source
More clues leading to the result CANOLA
- Kind of oil
- Edible type of oil
- Cooking-oil source
- Vegetable-oil source
- Least fatty cooking oil
- Oil high in monounsaturated fatty acids
- Liquid high in monounsaturated fatty acids
- Edible oil type
- Source of oil
- Rapeseed product, familiarly
More clues leading to the result OLIVES
- They may be colossal
- Oil-producing fruits
- Salad spheroids
- Tapenade ingredients
- Pizza topping
- Mount of ___ (Biblical location)
- Jerusalem's Mount of ___
- Martini garnishes
- They may be pitted
- Antipasto morsels
More clues leading to the result WHALE
- Marine mammal
- Frankenstein director James
- Vineyard Vines logo
- Ahab's obsession
- Member of a pod
- Blubbery sort?
- Horror director James
- Creature in a pod
- Seek blubber
- Mammoth mammal
More clues leading to the result FLAXSEED
- Vegetable oil source
- Source of a yellowish oil
- Oil source
- Big source of omega-3 fatty acids
- Source of healthful fat and fiber
- Steroid scandal substance
More clues leading to the result COCONUT
- Candy bar flavoring
- Palm product
- Milk-yielding fruit
- Ambrosia ingredient
- Pina colada flavoring
- Macaroon flavoring
- Indonesian export
- Fruit that can be the source of the starts of the answers to starred clues
- Fruit with milk
- Milk source
More clues leading to the result PALM
- Date tree
- It may be greased or read
- Kind of reader
- Kind of tree
- Chiromancer's focus
- Type of tree
- Conceal, as a card
- Card carrier
- Card carrier?
- Coconut's spot
More clues leading to the result ARABIA
- Saudi __
- Kuwait's peninsula
- Mideast peninsula
- Omani's land
- Peninsula between Red Sea and Persian Gulf
- 3-Down's region
- Sheik land
- Asian peninsula
- Lawrence's baliwick
- Lawrence's place
More clues leading to the result WELL
- Water source
- Sound
- ___-done (steak-ruining specification)
- No longer sick
- Jack Benny's interjection
- Bucket site
- Healthy
- In good health
- Wish granter, of a sort
- Watering hole?
More clues leading to the result COD
- Cape __ (house style)
- Catch of the day, perhaps
- Massachusetts cape
- Massachusetts food fish
- Package letters
- Dietary oil source
- Pollock's cousin
- Food fish
- Common food fish
- Atlantic catch
More clues leading to the result FLAX
- Source of linen
- Linen source
- Linen fiber
- Linen raw material
- Plant fibre
- Source for 32-Across
- Whence linseed oil and linen
- Fiber made into thread
- Certain plant or fiber
- Linseed oil source
More clues leading to the result EMU
- Flightless bird
- Australian bird
- Big bird
- Bird that's a source of red meat
- Ostrich kin
- Outback bird
- Rhea relative
- The new meat?
- Cassowary relative
- Edible ratite
More clues leading to the result CODFISH
- Martha's Vineyard catch
- Symbol of Boston.
- New England specialty.
- Oil source
- Catch in the North Atlantic
- Limerick, part three: "She dined on ___"
- Atlantic swimmer
- North Atlantic delicacy
More clues leading to the result SESAMESEEDS
- Everything bagel toppers
- Roll top
- Sylvester's least favorite Big Mac ingredient?
- Tahini ingredient
- Oil source
- Roll-top items
- Burger-bun toppers
- Earliest known spice
- Whopper's toppers
- Roll top?
More clues leading to the result SOYBEANS
- Tofu source
- Vegetable oil source
- Tofu base
- Versatile crop
- Oil source
- From these we get linoleum, glue, soap, house paint, etc.
- Subjects of Dr. Carver's experiments.
- Protein-rich crops
- Subjects of Dr. Carver's experiments
- Versatile legumes
More clues leading to the result SOYA
- Bean high in protein
- Bean used to make natto
- Protein source
- Protein bean
- ___ bean
- 91-Down source
- ___ bean (miso ingredient)
- Kind of bean
- Versatile bean
- Tofu source
More clues leading to the result ARTSALE
- Gallery event
- Place to get some pastels
- Gallery draw
- Source of cheap oils?
- Picture show?
- Where to buy a painting
- Place to buy prints
- Place to buy a landscape
- Place to check for prints
- Oil source
More clues leading to the result MIDDLEEAST
- Where many caftans are worn
- Region including Egypt, Israel, etc.
- Arabian Peninsula region, and what 16-, 20-, 36- and 50-Across literally have
- Global hot spot
- Part of Asia.
- Perennial hot spot
- Kuwait, Iraq, etc.
- Oil source
- World hot spot ... or a hint to the answers to the starred clues
- Birthplace of three major world religions
More clues leading to the result IRAN
- Neighbor of Pakistan
- Bahai home
- OPEC member
- Pahlavi's former domain
- Persia, now
- Where Qum is
- Where rials are spent
- Zagros' Mountains locale
- __-Contra affair
- Before 1935 it was Persia
More clues leading to the result SESAMES
- Falafel seeds
- Plants which yield edible seeds
- Bun-topping seeds
- Cracker flavorings
- Oil source
- Seeds for buns
- Garnish seeds
- Bagel flavorings
- Oil-yielding seeds
- Bun flavorings
More clues leading to the result NEATSFOOT
More clues leading to the result OMAN
- Arabian sultanate
- Mideast gulf
- Muscat's locale
- Muscat's sultanate
- Saudi Arabia neighbor
- Arabian Peninsula kingdom
- Arabian land
- Country on the Arabian Sea
- Formerly Muscat
- Persian Gulf sultanate