Salty drop
The crossword clue "Salty drop" is answered by TEAR, a 4-letter entry. Used 39 times across 26 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
TEAR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TEAR answer page.
Used 39 times across 26 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TEAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by TEAR, most used first.
- Rip - used 248 times, most recently in 2026
- Eye drop - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
- Rend - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Sign of sorrow - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Glum drop? - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- At the drop of ___ - AHAT, used 94 times
- Salty septet - SEAS, used 71 times
- Drop in the mail - SEND, used 46 times
- Drop anchor - MOOR, used 33 times
- Salty bodies of water - SEAS, used 27 times
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