| Clue | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Old salts | The Guardian Quick | 08 Nov 2021 |
| State spies protecting party at midnight on the old boat | Irish Times Crosaire | 16 Oct 2021 |
| Old salts found in large bodies of water around Labrador, for example | Irish Times Crosaire | 06 Mar 2021 |
| Grizzled sailors | Wall Street Journal | 14 Dec 2020 |
| Main man's best friends are old sailors | ||
| Many Melville men | The New Yorker | 23 Mar 2020 |
| Old salts | LA Times Daily | 30 Mar 2016 |
| Salts | ||
| Salts | ||
| Veteran mariners | ||
| Tars on the main | ||
| Tars | ||
| Old salts | ||
| Old salts | ||
| Tars | ||
| Sailing salts | ||
| Veteran sailors | ||
| Sailors on a bark? | ||
| Pirates | ||
| Salts | ||
| Old tars. | ||
| Tars. | ||
| Pirates. | ||
| Popeye and Sindbad. | ||
| Old sailors. | ||
| Mariners. | ||
| Popeye, Deadeye, et al. | ||
| Old sailors: colloq. |