Crossword-Solution: SQUIDS
We have 11 clues for the answer “SQUIDS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Color-changing swimmers | 1 answer |
| Octopuses' cousins | 1 answer |
| Some tentacled species | 1 answer |
| Ten-armed species | 1 answer |
| Seafood items | 2 answers |
| Cuttlefish kin | 2 answers |
| cuttlefish | 9 answers |
| cuttlefish fluid | 10 answers |
| CUTTLEFISH ink | 10 answers |
| CUTTLEFISH COUSIN | 10 answers |
| cuttlefish pigment | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SQUIDS (5)
See Acetabuliferous.] (Zo”l.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cupÐshaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata.
These loathsome monsters--call them squids, or devil-fish, or what you will--would sometimes come and throw their horrible tentacles over the side of the frail craft from which the divers were working, and actually fasten on to the men themselves, dragging them out into the water.
The nearest living ally of the ammonites is the pearly nautilus, the other existing cephalopods, such as the squids, cuttle-fish, octopus, etc., are much more distantly related.
The shell of _Nautilus_ is external, that of _Spirula_ internal; _Nautilus_ has four gills, _Spirula_ two; _Nautilus_ has multitudinous tentacles, _Spirula_ has only ten arms beset with horny-rimmed suckers; _Spirula,_ like the squids and cuttle-fishes, which it closely resembles, has a bag of ink which it squirts out to cover its retreat when alarmed; _Nautilus_ has none.
The three chief classes of mollusks--the PELECYPODS (represented by the oyster and clam of to-day), the GASTROPODS (represented now by snails, conches, and periwinkles), and the CEPHALOPODS (such as the nautilus, cuttlefish, and squids)--were all represented in the Cambrian, although very sparingly.
Quotes with SQUIDS (3)
On those luminous mornings Adela returned from the market, like Pomona emerging from the flames of day, spilling from her basket the coloful beauty of the sun — the shiny pink cherries full of juice under their transparent skins, the mysterious apricots in whose golden pulp lay the core of long afternoons. And next to that pure poetry of fruit, she unloaded sides of meat with their keyboard of ribs swollen with energy and strength, and seaweeds of vegetables like dead octopus…
I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.
I was thinking about what would it be, what would the characters be like, and it just suddenly dawned on me that, hey, nobody is doing an underseas show. So I started drawing these weird invertebrate animals, various characters like crawfish and starfish and squids and sponge.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1975–2016).