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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% IRRITANT Salt on an open wound, for example (8) Wall Street Journal Jan 25, 2022
6% INJURED Wounded (7) (7) Mirror Classic Dec 31, 2025
6% SUTURE Stitch up, as a wound (6) Premier Sunday Dec 28, 2025
6% EPSOM ___ salts (5) USA Today Dec 26, 2025
6% NACL Salt, symbolically (4) Newsday Dec 25, 2025
6% SHAKER Salt dispenser (6)
6% SCAB Crust on a wound (4) Puzzler Backwords Dec 17, 2025
6% HEAL "Time will ___ all wounds" (4)
6% LINT Wound dressing (4) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Dec 8, 2025
6% SEL Salt, in Paris (3) New York Times Dec 8, 2025

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