Crossword-Solution: SHELLFISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shellfish | n. | Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “SHELLFISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| sea-living animal, esp one that can be eaten, with a shell | 1 answer |
| meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell | 1 answer |
| What some are allergic to | 1 answer |
| What an underwater gunner can do | 1 answer |
| Seafood category | 1 answer |
| Mollusk or crustacean | 1 answer |
| Clams and oysters | 1 answer |
| Clams and crabs | 1 answer |
| "My daughter would love to go angling"? | 1 answer |
| Oyster, e.g. | 2 answers |
| oyster e g | 2 answers |
| Nonkosher food | 2 answers |
| Cause of some allergic reactions | 2 answers |
| limpet | 3 answers |
| TRUMPET shell | 4 answers |
| Whelk | 5 answers |
| Mollusks | 7 answers |
| CHARACTERISTIC OF MANY ALLERGIC REACTIONS | 11 answers |
| allergic | 13 answers |
| Scallop | 14 answers |
| conch | 15 answers |
| Seafood? | 25 answers |
| mollusc | 26 answers |
| CLAM ___ | 26 answers |
| edible fish | 53 answers |
| Food fish | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHELLFISH (5)
Our Italian corporal, who had got a dozen of oysters from a fishwife, laid them at my feet, as though I were a Pagan idol; and I have never since been wholly at my ease in the society of shellfish.
These remains were of two kinds: first, there were vast shell-heaps or accumulations of shells and other refuse cast aside by rude tribes which at some unknown age in the past lived on the shores of the Baltic, principally on shellfish.
For food we subsisted upon shellfish and an occasional bird that I succeeded in knocking over with a rock, for long practice as a pitcher on prep-school and varsity nines had made me an excellent shot with a hand-thrown missile.
Though she did keep a shellfish supper-house, she was very civil, and directed him to the cigar divan on the other side of the street.
For two days, therefore, the poor weather-worn voyagers kept quiet, and either staid on board of their vessel, or merely crept along under the cliffs that bordered the shore; and to keep themselves alive, they dug shellfish out of the sand, and sought for any little rill of fresh water that might be running towards the sea.
Quotes with SHELLFISH (3)
I said, "I want to wear something funny and cool. Marjorie, could I wear your sparkly baseball hat?" The three of us looked at Marjorie. Now I remember thinking that her answer could change everything back to the way it was; Dad could find a job and stop praying all the time and Mom could be happy and call Marjorie shellfish again and show us funny videos she found on You Tube, and we all could eat more than just spaghetti at dinner and, most important, Marjorie could be norm…
The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you're a big boy. The sea's full of saints and it's been full of saints for years. Since longer than anything. Saints were there before there were even gods. They were waiting for them, and they're still there now. Saints eat fish and shellfish. Some of them catch jellyfish and some of them eat rubbish. Some saints eat anything they can find. They hide under rocks; they turn themselves inside out: they spit up spirals. …
A swaddled silence would be over the island, nights like that: if they complained, or had to cry for some lesion or cramp, it was baffled by the thick mists and all you heard was the tide, slapping ever sideways along the strand, viscous, reverberating; then seltzering back to sea, violently salt, leaving a white skin on the sand it hadn't taken. And only occasionally above the mindless rhythm, from across the narrow strait, over on the great African continent itself, a sound…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1984–2018).