One that's hard to catch Crossword Clue

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One that's hard to catch Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
2. voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

HARD (adjective)
1. (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
2. unfortunate or hard to bear
HARD (adverb)
1. with firmness
2. slowly and with difficulty
CATCH (verb)
1. reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
2. perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
CATCH (noun)
1. the act of catching an object with the hands
2. a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident

Hint 3: Anagram

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LEE

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19. Philosopher Descartes

20. Worried

21. French word in the middle of a name

22. Annoy

23. The flying fox is a type of one

24. Site with a monument that gets around 7 million ticketed visitors a year

25. Totally down (for)

27. Topical application

29. Like the glass in many a Dale Chihuly sculpture

30. Win-win

32. California's San ___ Island

33. Drift off

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36. Privileged groups

37. Hot spot

38. Unacceptable

39. Remove, as from a cluttered container, with "out"

40. Title derived from the Persian for "king"

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44. Sat ___ (GPS, to Brits)

45. History unit

47. Church congresses

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55. Get used to it

56. Backup for a trapeze artist

57. Popular antibiotic ointment

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Down

1. Pop-punk band named after a video game company, with "The"

2. Once, e.g.

3. Fully appreciating something

4. Wait for a passenger, perhaps

5. Status ___

6. Bay Area sch.

7. “___ From Muskogee” (Merle Haggard song)

8. Within the realm of reason

9. "Storage unit" of memory in the brain

10. W.N.B.A. star Jewell ___

11. C-store offering

12. Comes in last

15. Like the original Looney Tunes shorts, lengthwise

17. Linked up with

18. Like assassins and some sins

24. Helical tools

26. Actor Edward of "A Complete Unknown"

27. Big cheese

28. Nincompoop

29. Awesome, in slang

31. Key ingredient in Bridget's blue soup, in "Bridget Jones's Diary"

32. Dance wildly, in a way

33. Ixnays

34. "Yas, queen!"

35. Legend of Zelda console inits.

37. Split decision?

39. Chinese gambling game invented during the Northern and Southern dynasties

41. That's true about me right?

42. Expedite

44. Big Apple media inits.

47. Mini-tantrum

48. Empire State Building's style, informally

49. Pizza shop in "Do the Right Thing"

50. Snowballs, sometimes

52. Squeeze (out)

53. Q follower

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