Crossword-Solution: REMORAS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REMORAS | anagram | ROAMERS, ROMARES, SOREARM |
We have 19 clues for the answer “REMORAS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fish that cling to sharks. | 1 answer |
| Suckerfishes | 1 answer |
| Sharks' fellow travelers | 1 answer |
| Sharks' "hitchhikers" | 1 answer |
| Shark suckers | 1 answer |
| Shark hangers-on | 1 answer |
| Parasitic ocean fishes. | 1 answer |
| Marine hangers-on | 1 answer |
| Fish with sucker-like organs | 1 answer |
| Fish with a symbiotic relationship with sharks | 1 answer |
| Fish that cling to others. | 1 answer |
| Fish that attach themselves to sharks. | 1 answer |
| Fish that adhere to sharks. | 1 answer |
| Suckerfish | 2 answers |
| Shark-riding fish | 2 answers |
| pilot fish | 4 answers |
| Sucking fish | 5 answers |
| Fishes | 14 answers |
| tropical fish | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZAEMCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with REMORAS (5)
Nay, they are, indeed, but _remoras_ and hindrances to stay and slug the ship from further sailing; and have brought this to pass, that the search of the physical causes hath been neglected and passed in silence.
The pilot-fish only deserted their master when the derrick hauled him out of the water, and at the same time some dozen remoras, or sucking-fish, looking like disgusted bloated leeches, let go their hold on the shark and dropped back into the sea.
Friar John told us that in the days of yore two sorts of fishes used to abound in our courts of judicature, and rotted the bodies and tormented the souls of those who were at law, whether noble or of mean descent, high or low, rich or poor: the first were your April fish or mackerel (pimps, panders, and bawds); the others your beneficial remoras, that is, the eternity of lawsuits, the needless lets that keep 'em undecided.
When a turtle is perceived basking on the surface of the sea, the men, avoiding all noise, slip one of their remoras overboard, tied to a long and fine cord.
Possibly the shark would leave something of every meal, and then the remoras would dine at the second table.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1943–2019).