The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CRESS which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2019.
Salad ingredient crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CRESS | 14 % | 5 |
| ENDIVE | 8 % | 6 |
| RADISH | 8 % | 6 |
| TOMATO | 8 % | 6 |
| TUNA | 7 % | 4 |
| ONION | 6 % | 5 |
| OLIVE | 5 % | 5 |
| ROMAINE | 4 % | 7 |
| CELERY | 2 % | 6 |
| HEADLETTUCE | 2 % | 11 |
| AVOCADO | 2 % | 7 |
| TUNAFISH | 2 % | 8 |
| ICEBERGLETTUCE | 2 % | 14 |
| EGG | 2 % | 3 |
| WATERCRESS | 2 % | 10 |
| BIBBLETTUCE | 2 % | 11 |
| FRUIT | 2 % | 5 |
| PASTA | 2 % | 5 |
| BELLPEPPER | 2 % | 10 |
| KALE | 2 % | 4 |
| ARTICHOKE | 2 % | 9 |
| CUCUMBER | 2 % | 8 |
| FENCRESS | 1 % | 8 |
| ESS | 1 % | 3 |
| MESSOFCRESS | 1 % | 11 |
| SNAPPEA | 1 % | 7 |
| CRAB | 1 % | 4 |
| CARROT | 1 % | 6 |
| ASPIC | 1 % | 5 |
| REDPEPPER | 1 % | 9 |
| SPROUTS | 1 % | 7 |
| SLAW | 1 % | 4 |
| HERB | 1 % | 4 |
| LETTUCE | 1 % | 7 |
| ARUGULA | 1 % | 7 |
| LEAFLETTUCE | 1 % | 11 |
| POTATO | 1 % | 6 |
| PLUMTOMATO | 1 % | 10 |
| OLIVES | 1 % | 6 |
| SCALLION | 1 % | 8 |
| CHICKPEAS | 1 % | 9 |
| PIMIENTO | 1 % | 8 |
| BEET | 1 % | 4 |
| BEAN | 1 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Salad ingredient
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lettuce
- cabbage
- kale
- spinach
- cauliflower
- broccoli
- romaine
- napa
- ramp
- brassica
- chard
- leek
Crossword Answer definitions
CRESS noun- (plants) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result CRESS
- Salad plant
- Upper-class lettuce
- Reaches a peak
- Salad garnish
- Salad ingredient
- Salad green
- Leaves for garnish
- Green garnish
- Mustard family plant
- Pungent salad ingredient
More clues leading to the result ENDIVE
- Salad veggie
- Frisee
- Blanched salad green
- Escarole
- Chicory kin
- Salad leaf
- Curly-edged salad leaves
- Salad green
- Bitter-tasting salad ingredient
- Chicory crown
More clues leading to the result RADISH
- Salad slice
- Salad item
- Salad tidbit
- Mustard family member
- Daikon, e.g.
- Pungent salad ingredient
- Salad vegetable
- Daikon, for one
- Salad pepper-upper
- Salad veggie
More clues leading to the result TOMATO
- Warhol's soup-can flavor
- Attacker in a 1980 flick
- Club-sandwich layer
- Love apple
- Dish
- BLT ingredient
- TN State Fruit
- Marinara must
- Home garden yield
- Soup base
More clues leading to the result TUNA
- Charlie, for one
- Salad fish
- Sandwich stuffer
- Popular salad ingredient
- Sandwich stuff
- Canned fish
- Deli filling
- Pitch fish Charlie
- Sashimi selection
- Mercury-heavy fish
More clues leading to the result ONION
- Breath killer
- Quiche ingredient
- Bermuda, for one
- Pungent bulb
- Tear creator
- Vidalia treat
- Burger topper
- Culinary tearjerker
- Salad pepper-upper
- Tear jerker
More clues leading to the result OLIVE
- "Thimble Theatre" name
- Martini garnish
- Place for a pimento
- Stuffed salad ingredient
- __ branch (peace offering)
- Cocktail garnish
- Kind of drab
- Miss Oyl?
- Miss Oyl
- Popeye's gal
More clues leading to the result ROMAINE
- Lettuce
- Cos
- Lettuce variety
- Iceberg alternative
- Type of lettuce
- Caesar salad ingredient
- Caesar salad lettuce
- Arugula alternative
- Caesar salad basic
- Salad staple
More clues leading to the result CELERY
- Food stalk
- Soup stock veggie
- "The ___ Stalks at Midnight" (book in the Bunnicula series)
- Stalked green
- "Ants on a log" log
- Waldorf salad ingredient
- Stick eaten with peanut butter
- Item in Waldorf salad
- Crudités veggie
- Dip stick?
More clues leading to the result HEADLETTUCE
More clues leading to the result AVOCADO
- Alligator pear, familiarly
- Soap scent
- Guacamole base
- Hass, e.g.
- Trendy toast topper
- Salad fruit
- Guacamole flavor
- Veggie sandwich item
- Guacamole essential
- Alligator pear
More clues leading to the result TUNAFISH
- Kind of salad
- Diner order
- Salad ingredient, perhaps
- Classic casserole ingredient
- Sandwich filler
- Melt ingredient
- Popular salad.
- Need for a melt, maybe
- Sushi staple
- Salad ingredient
More clues leading to the result ICEBERGLETTUCE
More clues leading to the result EGG
- Cackleberry
- Embarrassing facial covering?
- Faberge creation
- Goose __ (zero)
- Incite to action, (with on)
- It can be beaten
- Kind of roll or toss
- Object of a hunt
- Omelet ingredient
- Poacher's acquisition?
More clues leading to the result WATERCRESS
- V-8 juice ingredient
- Salad green.
- Salad delicacy.
- A garnish
- Garnish used by chefs
- Salad ingredient
- Leafy soup
More clues leading to the result BIBBLETTUCE
More clues leading to the result FRUIT
- Kind of cocktail
- Durian, e.g.
- Yield edible things, perhaps, as a plant
- Orchard output
- Smoothie stuff
- Apples and oranges
- Slot machine pic
- Durians and plantains
- Compote ingredient
- Kind of fly
More clues leading to the result PASTA
- Shaped starch
- Trattoria treat
- Elbows and bowties
- Marathoner's staple
- Starchy staple
- Trattoria course
- Carbo-loading meal
- High carb meal
- Linguine or fettucine
- Rigatoni or macaroni
More clues leading to the result BELLPEPPER
- Salad staple
- Salad veggie
- Veggie that's commonly red, yellow or green
- Salad ingredient
- Food stuffed
- Garden item cut up for a salad
- Vegetable on a vine
- Oblong vegetable
- Stir-fry vegetable
- Salad item
More clues leading to the result KALE
- Cabbage relative
- Cabbagelike vegetable
- Crinkly cabbage
- Ornamental cabbage
- Winter cabbage
- Vegetable in the mustard family
- Leafy vegetable
- Leafy vegetable high in Vitamin K
- Purple leafed vegetable
- Sharp green
More clues leading to the result ARTICHOKE
- Edible thistle
- Salad ingredient
- Daisy relative
- Vegetable.
- Heart of the grocery?
- It may have a good heart
- Something you might want to get to the heart of?
- Food with a heart
- Plant with a heart
- Its heart is eaten as a vegetable
More clues leading to the result CUCUMBER
More clues leading to the result FENCRESS
More clues leading to the result ESS
- 19th in a familiar series
- Curve type
- Dangerous curve
- Dangerous road shape
- Deacon's follower?
- First of September?
- Harry Truman filler
- Man of Steel's monogram
- Ogee shape
- Self starter?
More clues leading to the result MESSOFCRESS
More clues leading to the result SNAPPEA
- It's eaten pod and all
- Salad veggie with an edible pod
- Stir-fry ingredient
- Veggie with an edible pod
- Salad ingredient
- Staple of Chinese cuisine
- Stir-fry veggie
- Stir-fry vegetable
- Common stir-fry ingredient
- Crunchy vegetable
More clues leading to the result CRAB
- Blue, stone or fiddler
- Complain, needlessly
- Grumpy person
- Bellyache
- Fiddler, for one
- Grouch
- Grump
- Grumpy one
- Curmudgeon
- Tasty cake?
More clues leading to the result CARROT
- Symbolic incentive
- Vegetable on a platter of hors d'oeuvres
- Incentive
- Stick counterpart
- Prop for Bugs Bunny
- Snowman's nose, often
- Nosh for Bugs
- Veggie symbolizing incentive
- Incentive, metaphorically
- Treat for Bugs
More clues leading to the result ASPIC
- Molded jelly
- Clear jelly
- Jellied garnish
- Meat jelly
- Tomato jelly
- Jelly garnish
- Savory jelly
- Clear jelly used in molds
- Salad dish
- Molded dish
More clues leading to the result REDPEPPER
- Chili, e.g.
- Ingredient of a tamale.
- Ingredient of enchiladas.
- Condiment.
- Cayenne
- Colorful salad ingredient
- Pregame practice in Cincinnati?
- Salad ingredient
- It's often crushed
More clues leading to the result SPROUTS
- Salad-bar ingredient
- Germinates
- Baby bean plants
- Young people
- Salad ingredient
- Develops quickly
- Starts to grow
- Pops up
- Shoots
- Small cabbage-like buds.
More clues leading to the result SLAW
- Shredded salad
- Beanery side
- Pastrami sandwich side
- It usually comes on the side
- Shredded side
- Fish and chips side dish
- Frank side
- It might come with a club
- Usually uneaten diner side dish
- Deli side
More clues leading to the result HERB
- Oregano or dill
- Sage, for one
- Flavorer
- Hall of Famer Pennock
- Oregano, e.g.
- Spice
- Seasoning plant
- Savory plant
- Chervil, e.g.
- Ganja
More clues leading to the result LETTUCE
- Leaves for dinner
- Bed makeup
- Caesar salad ingredient
- Lunch, part 2
- Salad leaves
- Only vegetable never sold frozen, canned, processed, or cooked
- Salad bar item
- Moola
- Moolah
- Romaine, e.g.
More clues leading to the result ARUGULA
- Bitter salad green
- Salad bar selection
- Trendy salad herb
- Edible plant also called "rocket"
- Salad bar greens
- Peppery salad green
- Salad green
- Pungent salad leaf
- Salad ingredient
- Mustard-family member
More clues leading to the result LEAFLETTUCE
More clues leading to the result POTATO
- Starchy tuber
- ____ chips
- Chowder ingredient
- Latke ingredient
- Vichyssoise ingredient
- One of 93 down, e.g.
- You might make a hash of it
- Red bliss, for one
- It may be mashed
- Word after couch
More clues leading to the result PLUMTOMATO
- Pasta sauce ingredient
- Spaghetti sauce ingredient
- Source of sauce
- Salad ingredient
- Common ingredient in pasta sauce
- Fruit named after another fruit
- Common pasta sauce ingredient
More clues leading to the result OLIVES
- They may be colossal
- Oil-producing fruits
- Salad spheroids
- Tapenade ingredients
- Pizza topping
- Mount of ___ (Biblical location)
- Jerusalem's Mount of ___
- Martini garnishes
- They may be pitted
- Antipasto morsels
More clues leading to the result SCALLION
- Vegetable in miso soup
- Salad ingredient
- Relative of a shallot.
- Shallot.
- Leek.
- Leek or shallot
- Green onion
- Soup or salad ingredient
- Garden item frequently added to cream cheese
- Onion in some pancakes
More clues leading to the result CHICKPEAS
- WFP basket offering
- Salad ingredient
- Garbanzos
- Salad-bar item
- Vegetables.
- Staple seeds of Asia
- Edible plant seeds
- Baby bird vegetables?
- What the hatchery owner brought
More clues leading to the result PIMIENTO
- Olive stuffing
- Antipasto veggie
- Pepper variety
- Spanish paprika.
- Stuffing for olives
- Salad ingredient
- Red stuffing?
- Olive stuffer
- Sweet red pepper
- Olive stuffing (Var.)
More clues leading to the result BEET
- Borscht base
- Paragon of redness
- Sugar source
- Soup veggie
- Tired veggie?
- Borscht veggie
- Exemplar of redness
- Swiss chard, for one
- Mangel-wurzel, e.g.
- Salad ingredient