| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| SCUM | Dross | |
| SLAG | Mining dross | |
| DROSSLESS | Free from dross. | |
| SCOBS | The dross of metals. | |
| OFFSCUM | Removed scum; refuse; dross. | |
| SPRUE | The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross. | |
| DROSSY | Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. | |
| RECREMENTITIOUS | Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross. | |
| RECREMENT | Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore. | |
| SCORIA | The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross. | |
| SHRUFF | Rubbish. Specifically: (a) Dross or refuse of metals. [Obs.] (b) Light, dry wood, or stuff used for fuel. | |
| SINTER | Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals. | |
| BLOOM | A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling. | |
| REFINE | To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purif... | |