"Halt!" to a salt
The crossword clue ""Halt!" to a salt" is answered by AVAST, a 5-letter entry. Used 25 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
AVAST
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AVAST answer page.
Used 25 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for AVAST
Every other clue in this collection answered by AVAST, most used first.
- Nautical command - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Sailor's "Stop!" - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- "Stop!" at sea - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Sailor's cry - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Salt's "Halt!" - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Nautical call - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Nautical "Halt!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- "Halt, salt!" - used 21 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.
- Halt - CEASE, used 47 times
- Come to a halt - CEASE, used 21 times
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