| Minerals China restricted on 01 Jul 2025, jolting global EV supply chains. (9) |
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| Essential for making many high-tech devices but are rather volatile (4,5) |
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| Bloody shortage, lacking key metallic oxide |
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| Mineral such as yttrium |
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| Chinese exports of metals and minerals under US national security investigation, likely to face more tariffs. (9) |
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| Rather rocky 100sqm plot contained valuable oxide |
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| Element not often found on land (4-5) |
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| Valuable kind of element |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
10 Apr 2025 |
| Metallic element such as neodymium (4,5) |
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| The hypothesis that extraterrestrial life is improbable (4,5) |
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| Breathe in rather strange sort of element (4-5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
15 Aug 2024 |
| Any oxide of a lanthanide (4,5) |
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| Element, not particularly well done, at huge cost? |
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| Minimal data (4,5) |
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| Element of the lanthanide series |
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| Gunner and engineer go to ground for elements found together (4,5) |
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| Attention caught by rather unusual metallic element (4,5) |
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| Metallic element, rather odd, gathering attention |
The Guardian Cryptic |
18 Oct 2022 |
| Promethium's element class |
LA Times Daily |
09 Feb 2022 |
| Promethium's element class |
The Washington Post |
09 Feb 2022 |
| Unusually good ground yields element |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Nov 2020 |
| Most ____ elements are in the lanthanide series |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
17 Nov 2019 |
| Element thin on ground |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Aug 2019 |
| Any element of the lanthanide series |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
14 Jul 2019 |
| Element class including yttrium |
USA Today |
24 Aug 2017 |
| Element class including yttrium |
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| Little-known planet producing oxide |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Aug 2015 |
| Element class including cerium |
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| Terbium or thulium |
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| Band with the 1970 hit "Get Ready" |
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| Erbium, e.g. |
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| Element class including scandium |
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| Element class including scandium |
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| "I Just Want to Celebrate" rock group |
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| Erbium or terbium |
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| ___ elements (scandium, yttrium, et al.) |
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| Yttrium oxide, for one |
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| "I Just Want to Celebrate" rock group |
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| Kind of element |
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| Oxide of cerium, yttrium, etc. |
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| Kind of element |
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| Monazite, e.g. |
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| Basic oxide. |
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