Answer:

tars

Answer	Crossword Clue
TARS	Old salts
TARS	Gives a tongue-lashing to
TARS	Punishes publically

TARS	Sailors
TARS	Sea dogs
TARS	Swabs
TARS	Surfaces, as a road
TARS	Salts
TARS	Hold hands?
TARS	Crew members
TARS	Popeye and Bluto

TARS	Shipmen
TARS	Prepares to feather?
TARS	Hands on deck
TARS	Sea salts
TARS	Spar climbers
TARS	Salts at sea
TARS	Mariners
TARS	Paves

TARS	Pea jacket wearers
TARS	Completes, as a road
TARS	Gobs
TARS	Old mariners
TARS	Pitches
TARS	Blackens the road
TARS	Cigarette filter targets
TARS	Blackens, in a way

TARS	Pine distillates
TARS	Deck swabbers
TARS	Finishes the road
TARS	Finishes, as a road
TARS	Works on the road
TARS	Prepares to feather
TARS	Sub hands
TARS	Cigarette substances

TARS	Prepares a roof for tiling
TARS	Salts on deck
TARS	Seadogs
TARS	Seattle mariners
TARS	Swabbies

Crossword

a puzzle consisting of a grid of squares and blanks into which words crossing vertically and horizontally are written according to clues.