The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TARS which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2021.
Salts crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TARS | 48 % | 4 |
| SEAMEN | 18 % | 6 |
| SEADOGS | 7 % | 7 |
| SEASONS | 5 % | 7 |
| SAILORS | 5 % | 7 |
| EPSOM | 5 % | 5 |
| ABLESEAMEN | 3 % | 10 |
| SWABS | 3 % | 5 |
| BATH | 2 % | 4 |
| CURES | 2 % | 5 |
| SALS | 2 % | 4 |
| BORATES | 2 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Salts
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- saliferous
- table salt
- common salt
- salinity
- saline
- salty
- saltiness
- briny
- brackish
- sharp
- tasteful
- preserved
Crossword Answer definitions
TARS noun- (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
- Coal tar.
- A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
- A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.
- Black tar, a form of heroin.
- To coat with tar.
- To besmirch.
- A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
- A file produced by such a program.
- To create a tar archive.
- A Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
- A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
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 TARS
- Old salts
- Gives a tongue-lashing to
- Punishes publically
- Sailors
- Sea dogs
- Swabs
- Surfaces, as a road
- Salts
- Hold hands?
- Crew members
More clues leading to the result SEAMEN
- Ejawait ... no ... uh ... "Salts"
- Tars on the main
- Salts
- Naval draftees
- Tars
- Ahab and Queeg
- Gobs
- Old salts
- Mariners
- Sailors
More clues leading to the result SEADOGS
- Tars on the main
- Salts
- Sailors on a bark?
- Sailing salts
- Veteran sailors
- Veteran mariners
- Old sailors: colloq.
- Mariners.
- Old sailors.
- Popeye, Deadeye, et al.
More clues leading to the result SEASONS
- Adds flavor
- Adds spice
- Vivaldi's foursome
- Annual foursome
- Regular quartet
- Salts, e.g.
- They're basically quarters
- Four __: luxury hotel
- "Friends" had 10 of them
- Gives a kick
More clues leading to the result SAILORS
- Shore-leave takers
- "Pinafore" people
- "H.M.S. Pinafore" extras
- Tars
- Hispaniola crew
- Members of the crew
- Destroyer crew
- White-hat wearers
- "There Is Nothing Like a Dame" singers
- Salts on the ocean
More clues leading to the result EPSOM
- Downs or salts
- English racetrack site
- Foot salts
- __ Downs (English race track)
- ____ salts; old remedy
- Derby site
- Variety of salts
- ___ Downs (English racecourse)
- Horse racing site
- Salt variety
More clues leading to the result ABLESEAMEN
More clues leading to the result SWABS
- Mops
- CSI's DNA collectors
- Clears the deck
- Mop wielders
- Cottony bunches
- Does a deck duty
- Salts
- Does a gob's job
- Mops, as the deck
- Q-tips, for example
More clues leading to the result BATH
- English spa city
- Take a __ (lose money)
- British spa
- Suds spot
- Baby's bedtime ritual
- ___ mat
- Rubber ducky dock?
- Big financial loss
- City that's home to the Jane Austen Center
- Rubber ducky's place, perhaps
More clues leading to the result CURES
- Preserves meat
- Remedies
- Makes better
- Medical breakthroughs
- Medical grails
- Nostrums
- Word used by a patent-medicine salesman
- Salts one's meat, possibly
- They're sought for sicknesses
- Antidotes
More clues leading to the result SALS
- Maglie and Mineo
- Pharmacists' compounds
- "Do the Right Thing" pizzeria
- "Do the Right Thing" setting
- Fictional pizzeria in Bedford-Stuyvesant
- Pharmaceutical compounds
- Actor Mineo et al.
- Mineo and Maglie
- Maglie and others
- Mineo and a mule