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
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More Universal Crossword (10/6/2025) Answers

Across

1. Shut angrily

5. Place

10. Baby bears

14. ___ over (study closely)

15. Slice of pie

16. Against

17. Novel in which real events are fictionalized

19. Sleeveless top

20. Announcement upon arrival

21. "__ sesame!"

23. X

24. When it isn't cloudy

29. Tweak for publication

31. Actor's signal

32. Real bird or imaginary creature

33. NYSE debut

36. Head-butts

38. Surveillance org.

39. Sailor's foul words ... or 17-, 24-, 54- and 64-Across, based on four letters they all contain?

43. Zero

44. Voting Coalition

45. Speedometer stat

46. Home shaped like a dome

48. Cuisine famous for sticky rice

50. Plethora

54. Cabinet for fine dishes

58. Greek H

59. Low female voice, or Spanish for "high"

60. Maker

62. It's forbidden

64. Curved hair accessory

67. Oceanic apex predator

68. Thunders

69. Bit of flooring

70. Adolescent

71. Adolescent's distress

72. Sesame ___

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Down

1. Fairy

2. Towered (over)

3. Italian luxury brand

4. Honey wine

5. Western European country that the ice dancer Olivia Smart competes for

6. Tiny breath mint

8. Card that often beats a king

9. "Robinson Crusoe" author Daniel

10. Big grotto

11. Perpetual

12. Jimin and Suga's group

13. Rest on a bench

18. New prefix?

22. Forgo

25. Orange-flavored liqueur, or a Caribbean island

26. Thin

27. Chancel's neighbor in a church

28. Vote for

30. Up to briefly

34. WWII craft

35. Olive's surname

37. ___ Grand (Vegas casino)

39. Sound of relief

40. Possible result of a pact

41. Laze around

42. Exhalation exclamations

43. Certain ___kname

47. Being borrowed, like a library book

49. Film awards

51. Do not disturb

52. 2025 television series about ballet

53. Distorted

55. Venomous snake

56. Surrealist Max

57. Gossip

61. "Hamlet" has five

62. Ready alternative?

63. Mine lode

65. Chicago’s ___ Center

66. Annoy repeatedly

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