Clues for the word "SALTY"
We've had 115 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 176 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on February 12, 2026.
Definition of salty
- a. - Somewhat salt; saltish.
Referring Clues
- Full of four-letter words
- Slightly blue
- Like pretzels
- Off-color
- Like tears
- Like beach air
- Like pretzels, typically
- Like ocean air
- Like sea air
- Like some sailors' language
- Like most potato chips
- Old sailor
- ___ dog (vodka and grapefruit juice cocktail)
- Unlike fresh water
- Like many pretzels
- Overseasoned somehow
- Like bar snacks
- Like potato chips
- Like blue language
- Like teardrops
- Piquant
- Like many snacks
- Thirst-inducing
- Like soy sauce
- Like most chips
- Like food that makes you thirsty
- Like the sea
- Like old sailors
- Like many peanuts
- Piquant, as wit
- Like most chips in bowls
- Coarse
- Like seawater
- Like some peanuts
- Brackish
- Coarse, as language
- Like off-color humor
- Bawdy
- Like a seaman's humor, stereotypically
- Not fresh, in a way
- Dirty
- Like seasoned pretzels
- Like anchovies
- A bit blue
- A little blue
- Crude, as language
- Coarse, as a joke
- Like a seaman's humor
- Laced with profanity
- Crude
- Like some pretzels
- Like many a pretzel
- Like many bar snacks
- Thirst-inducing, like potato chips
- Not appropriate for younger ears
- Ribald
- Like the deep blue sea
- Like pork rinds
- Like most pickles and pretzels
- Sea smell
- Off-color, as some language
- Full of oaths
- Like sailors' talk
- The water was too ___ (another guess from peter grosz)
- Like salior's stories
- Full of cusswords
- Like bar snacks, usually
- Like most pretzels
- How soy sauce tastes
- Sweet companion
- Made for bar snacks, most likely
- Made to encourage drinking
- Like miso, typically
- Like tears or sailors' language
- Like potato chips or pretzels
- Like caviar
- "Come Along" rockers ___ Dog
- Tastefully piquant, just like a sailor
- Like Jack's wit?
- Tasting slaty, perhaps?
- Saline
- Having an oddly slaty taste?
- Sharp (language, humour)
- Engagingly stimulating or provocative
- KD Lang's unnamed toy boy's half crazy
- Off-color, as language
- Containing 1-Down
- How many like their popcorn
- Like the ocean
- Like much snack food
- Like cured meats
- Kind of language used by sailors
- Seasoned like pretzels
- Like the ocean and most potato chips
- Full of curses, say
- Language description derived from sailors' chatter
- Like miso paste
- Resentful
- Like sea water
- Like Jack's wit?
- Like some lassis
- Tasting slaty, perhaps?
- Annoyed, in slang
- Like sailors' language, stereotypically
- Witty yet tasteful remark about an officer
- Like some potato chips and language
- Like a margarita glass rim
- Like tears and some language
- Having an oddly slaty taste?
- Like namkeen lassi
- Briny
- Like potato chips and seawater
- Like tarako and pretzels
- Lippy
- Like movie popcorn
Last Seen In
- New York Times - February 12, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - September 19, 2025
- Daily American - September 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 20, 2025
- Daily American - May 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 04, 2025
- Family Time - February 09, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 17, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 03, 2025
- New York Times - December 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 09, 2024
- LA Times - September 28, 2024
- Daily American - September 04, 2024
- USA Today - June 13, 2024
- Daily American - April 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 03, 2024
- USA Today - January 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 06, 2024
- USA Today - December 11, 2023
- Daily American - September 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 18, 2023
- Daily American - May 21, 2023
- LA Times - December 22, 2022
- New York Times - December 21, 2022
- New York Times - December 05, 2022
- New York Times - September 18, 2022
- Daily American - September 04, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 28, 2022
- New York Times - June 26, 2022
- And in 146 more crossword puzzles...