Crossword-Solution: SWORDFISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Swordfish | n. | A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long. |
| Swordfish | n. | The gar pike. |
| Swordfish | n. | The cutlass fish. |
| Swordfish | n. | A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “SWORDFISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ocean swimmer with a long pointy nose | 1 answer |
| large fish with a very long upper jaw | 1 answer |
| Xiphias gladius | 1 answer |
| What Zorro brought | 1 answer |
| Swimmer with a long upper jaw | 1 answer |
| Sharp swimmer | 1 answer |
| Sea creature that resembles the maaarrrlin! | 1 answer |
| SWORD-shaped snouted fish | 1 answer |
| SEA fish with sword-like pointed upper jaw | 1 answer |
| Reagan s favorite entree | 1 answer |
| Predatory sea creature with a long, flat bill | 1 answer |
| Friday steak. | 1 answer |
| Friday entree. | 1 answer |
| Fencer's favorite entree? | 1 answer |
| Deep sea trophy catch | 1 answer |
| Saber fish | 2 answers |
| Steak from the sea | 2 answers |
| Oceanic predator | 3 answers |
| Deep-sea catch | 3 answers |
| SPORTING fish | 3 answers |
| Travolta film | 4 answers |
| GLUTEN-free fare | 4 answers |
| Catch of the day, perhaps | 7 answers |
| Seafood selection | 17 answers |
| Seafood? | 25 answers |
| marine fish | 43 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SWORDFISH (5)
The weathered hardwood walls were decorated with huge stuffed crabs, swordfish, lifesavers and a pot pourri of fishing accouterments.
They have plenty of natural enemies—cachalots, swordfish, and sawfish—without you troubling them.” The Captain was right.
Banner fish (Zo”l.), a large fish of the genus Histiophorus, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish.
Interspersed among the mills were little wooden sailors swinging paddles; weather vanes in the shapes of wooden whales, swordfish, ducks, crows, seagulls; circles of little wooden profile sailboats, made to chase each other 'round and 'round a central post.
Captain Hedge's is a swordfish." "We-ll, that particular one got a wrong start and ended up by bein' a whale, but I shouldn't wonder if we could find a swordfish if we looked.
Quotes with SWORDFISH (3)
Fenchurch had red mullet and said it was delicious. Arthur had a swordfish steak and said it made him angry. He grabbed a passing waitress by the arm and berated her.“Why’s this fish so bloody good?” he demanded, angrily.
Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths...
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1963–2023).