The Clue
Preserves (5 letter answer)
The Answer
SALTS
Tags
Notes
The answer SALTS is common and appears about once every 225 puzzles.
Related Clues
Bath ___
Condiments
Epsom ___
Gobs
Sailors
Seasons
Bath or Epsom
Epsom items
Epsom products
Experienced mariners
Jack-tars
Navy men
Pequod's crew
Puts (away)
Sea dogs
Seasoned sailors
Seasons or deices
Seasons, in a way
Smelling things
Uses a shaker
Veteran seamen
De-ices, in a way
Puts (away), as for safekeeping
Does road work of a sort
Definition
SALT as a noun:
1. a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
2. (salt, table salt, common salt) = white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
3. (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT) = negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons
4. (salt, saltiness, salinity) = the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
SALT as a verb:
1. add salt to
2. sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"
3. add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes"
4. preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"