Answer: SALTPETRE
The answer SALTPETRE has 34 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Step later taken to dispose of chemical
- Gunpowder ingredient
- Nitre
- Constituent of gunpowder - steel trap blown up?
- Another name for potassium nitrate
- Jack and Peter produced a preservative
- Sounds as if Peter the sailor is in an explosive mixture
- Sailor's pique concerning compound
- Sailor robbed saint, reportedly — part of explosive mixture
- Chemical alert -- pet's ill
Last seen in:
- The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 29,312 - Feb 22 2024
- The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 29,118 - Jul 10 2023
- The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 29,083 - May 30 2023
- The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,167 - Dec 10 2022
- The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,967 - Dec 1 2022
- The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 242
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27680
- The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,258 - Jan 13 2020
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1483
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1463