SALT, but not PEPPER Crossword Clue

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SALT, but not PEPPER Crossword Answer

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PEPPER (verb)
1. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
2. add pepper to
PEPPER (noun)
1. pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
2. climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
SALT (noun)
1. the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
2. 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
SALT (verb)
1. add salt to
2. add zest or liveliness to
SALT (adjective)
1. (of speech) painful or bitter

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