Wriggler in a stream Crossword Clue

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Wriggler in a stream 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

WRIGGLER (noun)
1. larva of a mosquito
2. one who can’t stay still (especially a child)
STREAM (noun)
1. something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
2. a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
STREAM (verb)
1. rain heavily
2. flow freely and abundantly

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41. Historian's division

42. Undying

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45. Publicly proclaim

46. Scatters messily

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56. Kind of green

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