Coming from the August 7, 2025, edition of the NYT Crossword Puzzle, the clue that we have for you is useless leftovers. The answer is made up of five letters that will fill up the downward section. Leftover food is always good when reheated properly, but some can be useless.
Useless leftovers are the worst because you can’t eat them
The answer to this clue is DROSS. The word dross generally means worthless or rubbish. You could say that your leftovers are useless, because if you reheat them, they may still smell foul, and you can’t eat them anymore. However, leftovers don’t just mean food that you can eat.
It could be a case where there are leftover materials from a construction or job. There might be slabs of wood or concrete left over, but you can’t use them because of the poor quality. That does qualify as something that is useless, rubbish, and even worthless.
