'Slippery' fish Crossword Clue

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'Slippery' fish Crossword Answer

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EELS

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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

SLIPPERY (adjective)
1. not to be trusted
2. causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide
FISH (noun)
1. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
2. the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
FISH (verb)
1. seek indirectly
2. catch or try to catch fish or shellfish

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

EELS
(4 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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LEE

More Universal Crossword (10/2/2024) Answers

Across

1. Come off as

5. Hunk of meat

9. Yiddish "Yikes!"

14. Country home to many llamas

15. Banks of fashion

16. Opposite of everybody

17. Wing motions? (In this clue's answer, note letters 5-8)

19. Beaming blissfully

20. Sound from a cat that's "making biscuits," perhaps

21. Dropped tomato sounds

23. Fruit exterior

25. Out, in a way

27. Shreds, as cheese

29. Squeaky rodents? (... letters 4-6)

32. Guitarist Paul

33. Classic bagel type

35. Old Russian rulers

37. Picnic pests

39. Nocturnal baby bird

41. Red character of kids' TV

42. Disney heroine played by Liu Yifei

44. Fabulist credited with coining the term "lion's share"

46. __ can

47. Pick up the tab? (... letters 3-6)

49. Cutting, as a lawn

51. Most loyal

53. Main ingredient in pilaf

54. Gated community?

56. Copied

58. Muslim pilgrim's destination

59. Heist helper ... and a hint to who has infiltrated 17-, 29- or 47-Across

64. Hunter constellation

65. Brings home after taxes

66. Millennium Falcon captain Han

67. __ Carta

68. Painter Francisco

69. In a dead heat

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Down

1. Beach lotion letters

3. Chapter of history

4. 41-Across, e.g.

5. A-lister

6. Stretchy fabric

7. Biblical boat

8. Prominent features of funk music

9. Ready for action

10. Warrior one or cobra

11. V in physics

12. Name hidden in "future nostalgia"

13. Certain evergreen

18. Minty cocktail

22. Pushup target, for short

23. Union contract, informally?

24. SoCal neighborhood that borders Boyle Heights

26. 🙂 🙂 🙂

27. Flashy rock genre

28. ___-mo

30. Like Lithuania and Latvia

31. White-coated weasel

34. "Spring ___" (2007 Best Musical winner)

36. Playlist component

38. Christmas-themed pub crawl

40. Male turkey

43. Blissful state for a Buddhist

45. ___ over (studied carefully)

48. Pool stick

50. Most broad

52. Yummy

54. Wife of Zeus

55. Vaping device

57. Leaning tower city

58. May honoree

60. Opposite of paleo-

61. Me to Miss Piggy

62. Pub brew

63. Silent agreement

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