Clues for the word "SALT"
We've had 403 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 885 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 19, 2026.
Definition of salt
- - Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.
- n. - The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.
- n. - Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.
- n. - Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.
- n. - A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.
- n. - A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.
- n. - The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.
- n. - Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.
- n. - Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.
- n. - Marshes flooded by the tide.
- n. - Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.
- n. - Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
- n. - Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- n. - Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
- v. t. - To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.
- v. t. - To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
- v. i. - To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.
- n. - The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.
Referring Clues
- NaCl
- Pepper's partner
- 1972 agreement, for short
- Ionic compound
- Morton product
- Popeye, e.g.
- Dash in the kitchen
- Alum, for one
- Highway department supply
- Preserve, in a way
- Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across
- Road crew's supply
- Tar
- Seasoned sailor
- Margarita need
- Ice melter
- S on a dining table
- It may be shaken
- Brining need
- Pepper-and-___ (having a close mixture of black and white)
- Skeptic's grain
- Pretzel topper
- Put (away)
- It contains some potassium iodide
- It may be added in a dash
- Source of some cures
- Sodium chloride
- ___ away (save)
- Margarita feature
- Ingredient in homemade ice cream
- Stash (away)
- Focaccia topping
- A dash, maybe
- Sea dog
- Margarita glass rim coater
- Bagel topping
- Jack-tar
- A pinch, maybe
- Old Navy man, informally
- Curer
- ___ lick (sodium source for livestock)
- "S" shaker
- Stinger?
- Margarita garnish
- Cracker coating
- Margarita glass rim coating
- Pepper partner
- Margarita mineral
- Shaker's contents
- Shaker stuff
- Bad thing to get in a wound
- It's shaken at the table
- Tar on a deck
- Seasoned seagoer
- Table staple
- Cellar contents
- Mariner
- Shaker contents
- Pretzel topping
- Icy road application, perhaps
- Chip seasoning
- What Lot's wife turned into
- Hide (away)
- ___ away (save)
- It's often iodized
- Margarita specification
- Margarita option
- It's often pinched
- Dash for a recipe, maybe
- Margarita go-with
- Gob
- Ingredient in most potato chips
- Margarita glass liner
- Curing compound
- Dietary no-no, sometimes
- It can be helpful in a pinch
- It's shaken out
- Store (away)
- Grains in a pinch
- Rock ___: halite
- Dinner sprinkling
- Shaker output
- Curing substance
- Fries flavoring
- NaCl, to a layman
- Season, in a way
- Hardly a landlubber
- Sailor
- With 64-Across, Utah phenomenon
- It may be found in a pinch
- Pretzel covering
- Road-ice treatment
- Cracker topping
- Ancient Roman money
- You may find it in a pinch
- Pepper's mate
- Pungency
- Snow melter
- Household compound
- Common condiment
- Edible rock
- "Needs more ___"
- Kind of mine
- Pretzel add-on
- Margarita enhancement
- Rim coating, sometimes
- Shaker's contents, sometimes
- Shaker contents, perhaps
- Tar on deck
- "Needs more ___"
- Table grains
- Common preservative
- Curing agent
- It may be shaken out
- Chip flavoring
- Ice melt
- Prevalent condiment
- Meat preservative
- Why sea water is undrinkable
- Old sailor
- Road deicer
- Skeptic's grain?
- Potato chip seasoning
- Mine product
- Squirrel (away)
- Old man of the sea
- Ocean tang
- Grocery grains
- Dietary no-no, for some
- Bad thing to put in a wound
- Shaker or cellar
- Popcorn topping
- Kitchen pinchful
- Rock ___: halite
- What's shaking?
- Soup seasoning
- Seaman
- Pay, slangily
- Main man?
- Mrs. Dash lacks it
- Kitchen staple
- Popcorn seasoning
- Pungent wit
- It's often used in a pinch
- With 30-Across, they started in 1969
- Old tar
- Shaker fill
- There's a lot of this ...
- Flavor enhancer
- Halite
- Margarita extra
- Wound worsener
- Halite, e.g.
- Piquancy
- Curing stuff
- Deicing stuff
- It's sprinkled on icy roads
- Veteran sailor
- Early preservative
- Common seasoning
- See 63-Down
- Pepper mate
- 62 Down melter
- It always gets in a pickle
- It may be used in a pinch
- Weapons talks acronym
- Cold war treaty
- Deice, in a way
- Stuff that might be pinched for a recipe
- Shaker item
- Reproach from Caesar
- See 50 Down
- Fries seasoning
- ___ cellar
- Add gold to a mine
- Sel
- 2010 Angelina Jolie spy film
- Winter sprinkle
- Margarita rim
- White stuff on the table
- Word with sea or seasoned
- Make less bland, in a way
- Eggs sprinkling
- Food seasoning
- Source of dietary sodium
- It may be what's shaking
- Sodium
- Icy-road application
- Table condiment
- Highway department supply in the Northeast
- See 39-Across
- Word with lake or lick
- Preserving substance
- Margarita complement
- Crystals in a shaker
- Ocean ingredient
- ___ of the earth
- Rock ___
- Bonneville ___ Flats
- Word after sea or before Lake
- Worth one's ___
- Seasoning and preservative
- Jennifer of "Soap"
- Fries sprinkling
- Pretzel seasoning
- Frequent fast food flavoring
- Treat icy roads
- "S" on the dinner table
- Pepper's counterpart
- 6 Down, for one
- Dead Sea feature
- Mine yield
- River in Ariz.
- ___ Lake City (site of the 2002 Winter Olympics)
- Seasoning in a shaker
- Typical pretzel topping
- Condiment in shakers
- Seagoing sort
- Save, with "away"
- With 39-Across and 61-Down, metropolis near the Wasatch Range (2002)
- Bagel topper
- Seasoning
- Old navy man
- Edible from mines
- Partner of pepper
- Certain mine extraction
- Chef's pinch
- Kitchen shaker's contents
- Condiment in a shaker
- Chip coating
- Highway department's winter supply
- Shaker filler
- Margarita flavoring
- Chips or fries seasoning
- Food preservative
- Tar on the ocean
- ___ Ste. Marie, Mich.
- Only commonly edible rock
- Winter road treatment
- Season
- Ocean mineral
- Pepper's opposite
- Shaker on a dinner table
- ___ and pepper
- ___ and pepper shakers
- It goes with pepper
- Shellback
- Pepper go-with
- Packet at a drive-thru
- Condiment for Jack Tar
- Condiment for a mariner
- Season, perhaps
- Winter spread?
- Certain condiment
- Bad substance for a 22-across
- Everything bagel topping
- It may be in a pinch
- Seasonal addition?
- Caramel addition, in some ice cream flavors
- Pepper's companion
- Pepa's partner
- Veruca ___
- Band of Horses "The Great ___ Lake"
- Good Riddance's ice melter song?
- Ingredient in many bar snacks
- Bryan Ferry "River of ___"
- "Seether" Veruca ___
- Preserve discussions to reduce nuclear danger, initially
- Mariner's means of preservation
- Old sailor's preserve
- Boatman's a little troubled in the head
- The sailor last wrecked
- Condiment
- Shaker grains
- Cook's pinch
- Dead Sea harvest
- Last resort of 9
- Crystalline substance used to season food
- World sailor, a thoroughly reliable person
- Take each of the starred answers with a grain of it
- Margarita rim garnish
- 30-Across, on the kitchen table
- Pretzel coating
- White stuff in a kitchen
- Pasta water additive
- What's dissolved to create chlorine
- De-icing substance
- 2010 Angelina Jolie thriller
- Condiment type
- Sailor's season
- See 7
- Old sailor's wit
- Old sailor's dry wit
- Pay time for sailor
- Dash in the kitchen?
- See 5-Down
- Pinch in the kitchen
- "Table" seasoning
- Soup sprinkling
- Shaken seasoning
- White stuff seen on the ground during a cold day
- ___ lick
- Pinch in the bakery
- 2010 Angelina Jolie movie
- Shaker condiment
- What a pinch might be
- Ocean feature
- Stuff in shakers
- Pork preservative
- Cache, with "away"
- What "S" may stand for on a dinner table
- What Lot's wife became
- Thousand Island dressing ingredient
- Shaker sprinkle
- Tar with taste
- Coating for the rim of a margarita glass
- Prankster's sugar substitute
- Small key for mariner
- Basic food preservative
- Natural deicer
- Sprinkle from a shaker
- A sailor with taste
- A mineral we eat
- Stuff in seawater
- Caramel seasoning
- Pinch at the table
- Seasoning that can lead to high blood pressure
- Jolie 2010 title role
- Brine has a lot of it
- Essential nutrient
- With a grain of ___
- What a bland meal may need
- Cracker topper
- Stuff in a shaker
- Sometimes-pink seasoning
- DJ Spinderella collaborator
- Shaker's filling
- Add seasoning
- Kitchen sprinkle
- It's sprinkled on a dish
- Winter road sprinkle
- Grains used in baking
- What seawater contains
- Stuff sprinkled on sidewalks
- Miso paste ingredient
- Rim coating, at times
- Experienced sailor
- One reason dogs lick us is for this, it's believed
- Stuff next to the pepper
- Grains in most breads?
- Seasoning for fries
- He has a taste for the sea
- Soy sauce ingredient
- Possibly last to go through the mill?
- Maybe last season
- "___, Fat, Acid, Heat"
- Not a landlubber
- S, on a shaker
- Common deicer
- Seasoning from the sea
- Stash away in the cellar?
- Kimchi seasoning
- Rock ___: ice melter
- Tsukemono seasoning
- What halophobia is the fear of
- Word after rock, sea or table
- Brine ingredient
- Bagel seasoning
- Corn seasoning
- Its presence on Mars offers a clue to life
- Cooking staple
- Mineral sprinkled on icy roads
- Shio kombu seasoning
- Flavoring in a shaker
- One teaspoon, pink or black, for emphasis
- Icy-sidewalk stuff
- "Sea"-soning
- Bagel variety
- Pepper's partner at dinnertime
- Tots seasoning
- A tar with taste
- Himalayan ___ (pink seasoning)
- ___-and-pepper hair
- Seasoning that's high in sodium
- Seasoning for pickling takuan
- K) Pepper go-with
- Fries topping
- Pepa or pepper partner
- It'll all shake out
- 127-Across's Bonneville ___ Flats
- Miso ingredient
- Kitchen staple that's gone missing in the song "Margaritaville"
- Wound stinger
- Cure component
- Abundance in Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni
- Component of many seasoning blends
- Seasoning in shrimp paste
- Stuff thrown over one's shoulder in an act of superstition
- Brine abundance
- Shaker filling
- Sidewalk ice melter
- Preservative used for thousands of years
- Popcorn topper
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 19, 2026
- Daily American - February 02, 2026
- New York Times - January 31, 2026
- LA Times - January 29, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 20, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 18, 2026
- New York Times - January 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 02, 2025
- LA Times - November 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 19, 2025
- LA Times - November 14, 2025
- LA Times - November 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 04, 2025
- LA Times - October 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 22, 2025
- Daily American - October 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 18, 2025
- LA Times - October 17, 2025
- Mirror Mini - October 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 06, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 05, 2025
- Daily American - October 01, 2025
- Daily American - September 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 11, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 04, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 02, 2025
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