The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DROSS , but the solution may also be SEWAGE which is one of the most recent solution (2018 in LA Times).
Waste crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DROSS | 16 % | 5 |
| SEWAGE | 16 % | 6 |
| SLAG | 12 % | 4 |
| LOSE | 9 % | 4 |
| LOSS | 5 % | 4 |
| REFUSE | 5 % | 6 |
| FRITTERAWAY | 5 % | 11 |
| SEWERAGE | 3 % | 8 |
| TRASH | 3 % | 5 |
| FRITTER | 3 % | 7 |
| SPOILAGE | 2 % | 8 |
| DETRITUS | 2 % | 8 |
| DISSIPATE | 2 % | 9 |
| SNUFFOUT | 2 % | 8 |
| SCRAP | 2 % | 5 |
| SLOP | 2 % | 4 |
| IDLE | 2 % | 4 |
| SQUANDER | 2 % | 8 |
| ELIMINATE | 2 % | 9 |
| RAVAGE | 2 % | 6 |
| DEBRIS | 2 % | 6 |
| FIDDLEAWAY | 2 % | 10 |
| RUBOUT | 2 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Waste
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- squander
- emaciate
- wastefulness
- devastate
- ravage
- pine away
- wild
- languish
- rot
- wasteland
- desolate
- do in
Crossword Answer definitions
DROSS noun- Waste or impure matter.
- Residue that forms on the surface of a metal from oxidation.
- The impurities in metal.
- A waste product from working with metal.
- Worthless or trivial matter.
- To remove dross from.
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 DROSS
- Smeltery refuse
- Scoria
- Unwanted parts
- Rubbish
- Metal waste
- Impurity
- Waste matter
- Unwanted extra
- Refuse when you 89-Down
- Slag
More clues leading to the result SEWAGE
- Waste
- Treatment-plant matter
- Disposal problem
- Septic tank contents
- When treated, it becomes sludge
- Raw material for Ed Norton?
- Septic stuff
- ___ treatment plant
- Treatment plant fodder
- Treatment plant input
More clues leading to the result SLAG
- Dross
- Refinery leftover
- Smeltery residue
- Smelting refuse
- Smelter residue
- Tailings
- Blast furnace by-product
- Smeltery waste
- Diss, in the UK
- Hot industrial waste
More clues leading to the result LOSE
- Get trounced
- Mislay
- Place or show
- Take it on the chin
- Come in second
- Finish last
- Finish second
- Give the slip to
- Misplace
- Come in last
More clues leading to the result LOSS
- Balance sheet minus
- Misplacement
- Setback
- Fullback's setback
- Sports-page stat
- Forfeiture
- Negative yardage, in football
- Profit's counterpart
- _____ leader
- Bad investment outcome
More clues leading to the result REFUSE
More clues leading to the result FRITTERAWAY
- Waste
- Squander little by little
- Squander slowly
- Squander
- Waste little by little (6 to 8)
- "Get thee gone, fried fiend!"?
More clues leading to the result SEWERAGE
- Waste
- Waste system
- Refuse liquid
- System of conduits.
- Waste-disposal system
- Ed Norton's field of work
- It's wasteful to Ed Norton
- It's wasteful to Ed Norton?
- City sanitation part
- Conduit system
More clues leading to the result TRASH
- Dumpster filler
- Badmouth
- Odds and ends
- Ransack, slangily
- Refuse
- Rightmost item on a dock, often
- Treat shoddily, as a hotel room
- Valueless stuff you can make a living collecting
- Vandalize
- Junk
More clues leading to the result FRITTER
- Battered snack
- Waste little by little
- Fried corn cake
- Small corn cake
- Waste.
- Small batter cake with filling.
- Corn cake.
- Small cake of fried batter.
- Batter cake.
- Small cake.
More clues leading to the result SPOILAGE
- It's preventable with preservatives
- Food dealer's concern.
- Fruit shipper's concern.
- Fruiterer's concern
- Waste
- Fruitery problem
- Cause of a bad-smelling refrigerator
- Process of going bad
- Problem for produce dealers
- Grocer's concern
More clues leading to the result DETRITUS
More clues leading to the result DISSIPATE
More clues leading to the result SNUFFOUT
More clues leading to the result SCRAP
More clues leading to the result SLOP
- Farm fare
- Greasy-spoon fare
- Trough filler
- Unappetizing fare
- Awful cuisine
- Pig food
- Food for the hogs
- Splatter
- Swill
- Supper in a sty
More clues leading to the result IDLE
- Lay off
- Like some threats
- Not in use
- Not working
- Twiddling one's thumbs
- Cleese's cohort, once
- Inactive
- Like chatter, perhaps
- Run in neutral
- Unoccupied
More clues leading to the result SQUANDER
More clues leading to the result ELIMINATE
- Remove
- Weed out
- Knock out of contention
- Drop
- Cut out
- Scratch
- Get rid of.
- Liquidate.
- "___ the negative."
- Exclude.
More clues leading to the result RAVAGE
More clues leading to the result DEBRIS
- Rubble
- Driftwood and such
- Litterbug's leavings
- Razing remains
- Remains
- Litter
- Wreckage
- Fragments
- Rubbish
- Trash