Answer: SALT
SALT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 314 times.
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
 - 'tis the season to be chary
 - See 5-Down
 - "Table" seasoning
 - Soup sprinkling
 - Shaken seasoning
 - Shaker condiment
 - What a pinch might be
 - Ocean feature
 - Stuff in shakers
 - Cache, with "away"
 - What "S" may stand for on a dinner table
 - What Lot's wife became
 - Basic food preservative
 - Natural deicer
 - Jennifer of "the marshall chronicles"
 - Stuff in seawater
 - Caramel seasoning
 - Icy road application
 - Pinch at the table
 - Seasoning that can lead to high blood pressure
 - Jolie 2010 title role
 - Brine has a lot of it
 - Essential nutrient
 - Cook's pinch
 - What a bland meal may need
 - Cracker topper
 - Sometimes-pink seasoning
 - It's sprinkled on a dish
 - What seawater contains
 - Stuff sprinkled on sidewalks
 - Rim coating, at times
 - One reason dogs lick us is for this, it's believed
 - Grains in most breads?
 - Seasoning for fries
 - Soy sauce ingredient
 - Season
 - "___, Fat, Acid, Heat"
 - S, on a shaker
 - Common deicer
 - Soap actress Jennifer
 - What halophobia is the fear of
 - Word after rock, sea or table
 - ___ and pepper
 - Shaker grains
 - Rock ___: ice melter
 - Brine ingredient
 - Its presence on Mars offers a clue to life
 - Cooking staple
 - Pinch in the kitchen
 - Mineral sprinkled on icy roads
 - Flavoring in a shaker
 - One teaspoon, pink or black, for emphasis
 - "Sea"-soning
 - Tots seasoning
 - Himalayan ___ (pink seasoning)
 - ___-and-pepper hair
 - Seasoning that's high in sodium
 - Seasoning for pickling takuan
 - 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
 - Fish sauce ingredient
 - Stuff thrown over one's shoulder in an act of superstition
 - Veteran of the seas
 - Brine abundance
 - Seasoning that melts ice
 - Shaker filling
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 29, 2025
 - USA Today - October 17, 2025
 - LA Times - October 17, 2025
 - New York Times - August 30, 2025
 - LA Times - August 01, 2025
 - New York Times - June 29, 2025
 - New York Times - June 13, 2025
 - New York Times - May 12, 2025
 - USA Today - May 08, 2025
 - LA Times - April 01, 2025
 - USA Today - February 03, 2025
 - LA Times - January 11, 2025
 - LA Times - November 19, 2024
 - New York Times - September 24, 2024
 - USA Today - August 27, 2024
 - LA Times - July 27, 2024
 - New York Times - July 10, 2024
 - New York Times - July 09, 2024
 - New York Times - June 29, 2024
 - USA Today - June 11, 2024
 
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