Clues for the word "SALIENT"
We've had 40 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 71 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on October 13, 2025.
Definition of salient
- v. i. - Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
- v. i. - Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
- v. i. - Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
- v. i. - Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.
- v. i. - Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
- a. - A salient angle or part; a projection.
Referring Clues
- Hard to miss
- Conspicuous
- Striking
- Noteworthy
- Very prominent
- Prominent, as a feature
- Hard-to-miss
- Pronounced
- Prominent
- Standing out prominently
- Standing out prominently
- Outstanding
- Most obvious
- Important
- Noticeable
- Worth noting
- Protruding
- Significant
- Projecting
- Standing out
- Outstanding - it's lean (anag)
- Entails (anag) - most important
- Prominent - in tales (anag)
- In the street one like ET is conspicuous
- Virtuous man holding foreigner to be important
- Most noticeable
- Notably significant
- Obvious way to get round the foreigner
- Striking entails disruption
- Met to restrict legal right of striking
- Striking stranger seen in street
- Foreigner occupying street, striking
- Main thoroughfare invaded by visitor from space?
- The way stranger interrupts is significant
- Outstanding stranger in the street
- Outstanding foreigner in the street
- Sticking out
- Part of a battle line that projects closest to the enemy: striking
- Prominent foreigner in 'the Street'
- Notable
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - October 13, 2025
- Daily American - July 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 14, 2025
- Daily American - January 11, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 22, 2024
- Daily American - January 17, 2024
- Daily American - July 23, 2023
- Daily American - January 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 28, 2022
- New York Times - February 13, 2022
- Daily American - January 17, 2018
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 28, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - December 27, 2017
- Washington Post Sunday - December 10, 2017
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - November 05, 2017
- Daily American - July 23, 2017
- New York Times - June 24, 2017
- Daily American - January 11, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 18, 2016
- Netword - October 16, 2016
- Universal - August 20, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 02, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 21, 2016
- New York Times - September 17, 2015
- Evening Standard Quick - August 03, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 21, 2015
- Universal - March 07, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 19, 2014
- And in 41 more crossword puzzles...