Pickling agent
The crossword clue "Pickling agent" is answered by BRINE, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BRINE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BRINE answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for BRINE
Every other clue in this collection answered by BRINE, most used first.
- Pickling solution - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Pickle juice - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Pickling liquid - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Seawater - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Pickling need - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Salty water - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Pickle. - used 12 times, most recently in 2012
- Salt water - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Pickler's solution - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Salty solution - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Curing solution - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Pickler's need - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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