The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word EEL , but the solution may also be ANGLE which is one of the most recent solution (2011 in New York Times).
Fish crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EEL | 16 % | 3 |
| SOLE | 10 % | 4 |
| EELS | 9 % | 4 |
| ANGLE | 7 % | 5 |
| GAR | 6 % | 3 |
| SHAD | 5 % | 4 |
| CARP | 4 % | 4 |
| SMELT | 4 % | 5 |
| DACE | 3 % | 4 |
| SCAD | 3 % | 4 |
| OPAH | 3 % | 4 |
| COD | 3 % | 3 |
| TUNA | 2 % | 4 |
| BASS | 2 % | 4 |
| TROLL | 2 % | 5 |
| PIKE | 2 % | 4 |
| GARS | 2 % | 4 |
| IDE | 1 % | 3 |
| PERCH | 1 % | 5 |
| HAKE | 1 % | 4 |
| SKATE | 1 % | 5 |
| TROUT | 1 % | 5 |
| VIGODACHARACTER | 1 % | 15 |
| CERO | 1 % | 4 |
| LING | 1 % | 4 |
| RAY | 1 % | 3 |
| GRUNT | 1 % | 5 |
| CODS | 1 % | 4 |
| SPRAT | 1 % | 5 |
| SKATES | 1 % | 6 |
| STINGRAY | 1 % | 8 |
| BREAM | 1 % | 5 |
| TARPON | 1 % | 6 |
| HERRING | 0 % | 7 |
| SCROD | 0 % | 5 |
| LINGS | 0 % | 5 |
| ALEWIFE | 0 % | 7 |
| TRAWL | 0 % | 5 |
| SEABASS | 0 % | 7 |
| OPAHS | 0 % | 5 |
| GUPPY | 0 % | 5 |
| GHOTI | 0 % | 5 |
| KIPPER | 0 % | 6 |
| LOACH | 0 % | 5 |
| SOLES | 0 % | 5 |
| SCUP | 0 % | 4 |
| OLDWIFE | 0 % | 7 |
| LAKEBASS | 0 % | 8 |
| CHUB | 0 % | 4 |
| HADDOCK | 0 % | 7 |
| ALEWIVES | 0 % | 8 |
| TUNAS | 0 % | 5 |
| SHINER | 0 % | 6 |
| POUTS | 0 % | 5 |
| GROPE | 0 % | 5 |
| POUT | 0 % | 4 |
| PLAICE | 0 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fish
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- gull
- sucker
- shlemiel
- mark
- chump
- schlemiel
- fool
- angle
- soft touch
- fall guy
- mug
- go fish
Crossword Answer definitions
EEL noun- Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
- The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.
- To fish for eels.
- To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result EEL
- Cave-dwelling fish
- Conger
- Elder elver
- Grown-up elver
- Long swimmer
- Scaleless fish
- Scaleless swimmer
- Sea shocker
- Slippery customer
- Slippery fish
More clues leading to the result SOLE
- Exclusive
- Flatfish
- Lone
- Plantar-wart locale
- Type of fillet
- A flatfish
- Dover fish
- Fish dish
- One and only
- ____ survivor
More clues leading to the result EELS
- Shockers
- Colubrine fish
- Shocking sea creatures
- Sinuous swimmers
- Skinny swimmers
- Slippery swimmers
- Sniggler's catch
- Sushi fare
- Swimming shockers
- Trattoria listing
More clues leading to the result ANGLE
- Go for fluke
- Point of view
- Emulate Walton
- Fish
- Slant
- Special approach
- It can be right, but not wrong (n.b. "your girlfriend" is too many letters)
- Story line
- Con man's scheme
- This is measured in degrees
More clues leading to the result GAR
- Long-snouted swimmer
- Needlefish
- Long-snouted fish
- Sharp-toothed fish
- Long-jawed fish
- Fish that resembles an alligator
- Long fish
- Slender swimmer
- Car's home, in realty ads
- Fish with a long nose
More clues leading to the result SHAD
- It's roe is a delicacy
- Herring relative
- Herring's relative
- Herring's kin
- Herring-like fish
- Herringlike fish
- Roe-producing fish
- Canadian rapper not named for river herring
- Roe source
- Migrating fish
More clues leading to the result CARP
- Find fault in a disagreeable way
- Freshwater catch
- Pond fish
- Bottom feeder
- Food fish
- Freshwater fish
- Find fault
- Complain
- Complain, like a fish?
- Beef
More clues leading to the result SMELT
- Cold-water catch
- Fuse, as ore
- Silvery fish
- Grunion relative
- Small, slender fish
- Make bronze
- Refine, as ore
- Process, as ore
- Refine ore
- Make aluminum
More clues leading to the result DACE
- Carp kin
- Freshwater fish
- Small freshwater fish
- North American minnow
- Carp and minnows
- Minnow variety
- Silvery freshwater fish
- Fresh-water fish
- Small fish
- Minnow
More clues leading to the result SCAD
- Carangid fish
- Mackerel
- Huge amount
- A whole lot
- Big batch
- Warm-water fish
- Whole slew
- Large amount
- Tropical fish
- Fish also called a goggle-eye
More clues leading to the result OPAH
- Brightly colored fish
- Vividly-colored fish
- Brightly-colored fish
- Colorful fish
- Moonfish
- Big and bright fish
- Bright fish
- Colorful deepwater fish
- Fish that's also a talk show host with one letter missing
- Haddock cousin
More clues leading to the result COD
- Cape __ (house style)
- Catch of the day, perhaps
- Massachusetts cape
- Massachusetts food fish
- Package letters
- Dietary oil source
- Pollock's cousin
- Food fish
- Common food fish
- Atlantic catch
More clues leading to the result TUNA
- Charlie, for one
- Salad fish
- Sandwich stuffer
- Popular salad ingredient
- Sandwich stuff
- Canned fish
- Deli filling
- Pitch fish Charlie
- Sashimi selection
- Mercury-heavy fish
More clues leading to the result BASS
- Choir member
- Choir voice
- Stereo knob
- Anglers pursuit
- Fishy instrument?
- It can have a big or a small mouth
- It may be striped
- Kind of fiddle
- Doo-wop group member
- Kind of drum or fiddle
More clues leading to the result TROLL
- Under-bridge dweller of myth
- Folk tale creature
- Fish, in a way
- Northern gnome
- Comments section annoyance
- Deliberately inflammatory poster on message boards
- Mythical monster
- Being under a bridge
- Fairy-tale monster
- 1960s fad doll
More clues leading to the result PIKE
- Old infantry weapon
- Explorer Zebulon
- Toll road
- Eponym of a peak
- Diver's position
- Sweet Betsy's home
- Diving position
- Long-nosed swimmer
- Peak discoverer Zebulon
- Diving position resembling the letter V
More clues leading to the result GARS
- Long-snouted fish
- Needlefishes
- Long-jawed fish
- Fish with long snouts
- Needlefish
- Long-jawed fish species
- Needle-nosed fishes
- Long-jawed fishes
- Narrow-snouted swimmers
- Beaked fish
More clues leading to the result IDE
- Chemical suffix
- A, b, h, or r ender
- Ox tail?
- O(ne of si)x (for a h)e(xago)n (or five for a pyrami)d
- Chemical ending
- Fluor- or brom- suffix
- Suffix with ox
- Suffix with chlor- or fluor-
- Suffix with cyan
- Carplike food fish
More clues leading to the result PERCH
- Bird's roost
- Freshwater fish
- Sit, perhaps precariously
- Vantage point
- Spiny-finned food fish
- Roost
- Sit, like a parrot
- Elevated seat
- Sit
- Sit, like a sparrow
More clues leading to the result HAKE
- Cod-like fish
- Cod's cousin
- Cod-like seafood
- Cod cousin
- Cod relative
- Cousin of the Atlantic cod
- Cod's kin
- Cod kin
- Fish dish
- Cod's close cousin
More clues leading to the result SKATE
- Circle the rink
- Flat fish
- Ray
- Ray variety
- Emulate Boitano
- Ray fish
- What Eric Heiden did well
- Bladed shoe
- Contemptible person
- In-line vehicle
More clues leading to the result TROUT
- Food fish
- Rainbow or brook
- Freshwater game fish
- With 21-Across, where to put certain fish being sent to another department?
- Lake fish
- Prized catch
- Brook yields
- Dolly Varden, for one
- Lake catch
- Fly-fisher's prize
More clues leading to the result VIGODACHARACTER
More clues leading to the result CERO
- Mackerel kin
- Uno minus uno
- Larger mackerel
- It's nothing to a Spaniard
- Goya's goose egg?
- 0, in Spain
- Dos minus dos
- Atlantic mackerel
- Food fish.
- Mackerel-like food fish.
More clues leading to the result LING
- Duck tail?
- Ender for ding-a
- Selma Bouvier's adopted baby on "The Simpsons"
- Member of cod family
- Lisa, ex of "The View"
- Cod cousin
- Suffix for earth ... and no other planet
- Suffix with earth or duck
- Heather
- Weak finish?
More clues leading to the result RAY
- Hope unit?
- Robinson or Leonard of the ring
- Sunbeam
- Shaft of light
- Sun beam
- "___ Donovan" (Showtime show)
- Barb-tailed fish
- Rachael of the Food Network
- Minimal hope
- Bit of sunshine
More clues leading to the result GRUNT
- Sound from the sty
- Sound from a pig pen
- Sty sound
- Porcine sound
- Struggler's sound
- Heaving sound
- Infantryman, in slang
- Sow's sound
- Gym sound
- Weight room sound
More clues leading to the result CODS
- Food fishes
- Seafood fishes
- Seafood choices
- Soft-rayed food fishes
- Some food fishes
- Bottom fishes
- Types of Atlantic fish
- Some UPS deliveries
- Certain UPS deliveries
- Bottom fish
More clues leading to the result SPRAT
- Jack who avoided fat
- Jack with a low-fat diet
- When canned, it's a sardine
- Lean eater
- Jack in a kiddie's rhyme
- Sardine relative
- Type of herring
- Mother Goose dieter
- Young 'un
- Small silvery herring
More clues leading to the result SKATES
- They required keys, once
- Shoes for Hughes
- Big fish
- Penguins wear them
- Bonnie Blair's footwear
- Roller derby gear
- Non-holy rollers?
- Hockey equipment
- Hans Brinker's footwear
- Necessity at a roller rink
More clues leading to the result STINGRAY
- Whip-tailed swimmer
- Fish whose tail is longer than its body
- Flat fish
- Fish with a dangerous tail
- Barb-tailed fish
- Classic sports car
- Ocean-bottom hider
- 1963 Chevrolet debut
- Manta's cousin
- Whip-tailed flat fish.
More clues leading to the result BREAM
- Saltwater porgy
- Minnow family member
- Grammy-winning British guitarist Julian
- Red-breasted sunfish
- Kin to a porgy
- Porgy's cousin
- Bluegill
- Silver-scaled fish
- Guitarist Julian
- Freshwater sunfish
More clues leading to the result TARPON
- Silvery game fish
- Bony sport fish
- Sport fisher's catch
- Large-scaled game fish
- Big Atlantic game fish
- Sport fish
- Game fish
- Atlantic game fish
- Bony game fish
- Silver king.
More clues leading to the result HERRING
- A red one is no clue at all
- It's misleading when it's red
- Sardine relative
- Kippered fish
- Iowa Senator in 77th Congress.
- Red ___.
- Little fish.
- Fish.
- Shad or sardine
- Abundant food fish
More clues leading to the result SCROD
- Wail
- Catch of the day, sometimes
- Young haddock
- Hyannisport course
- Popular whitefish
- Fish dish
- Fish-and-chips fish
- Dinner entree fish
- Seafood choice
- New England seafood
More clues leading to the result LINGS
- Ding-a-___
- Large marine food fishes.
- Codlike fishes.
- Burbot and hake.
- European food-fishes.
- Fish of the cod family.
- Fish.
- Suffixes with duck and hire.
- Food fishes
- Ding-a- -- (dopes)
More clues leading to the result ALEWIFE
- Herring's kin
- Fish also known as a river herring
- Stout server?
- Shadlike fish
- Great Lakes fish
- Herring relative
- Shad relative
- Food fish of herring family.
- Herringlike fish.
- Atlantic food fish.
More clues leading to the result TRAWL
- Use a dragnet
- Work with a net, in a way
- Fishing net
- Dragged fishing net
- Fish net
- Fish with a big net
- Fishing option that's a total drag?
- Large fishing net
- Shrimper's net
- Fish, in a way
More clues leading to the result SEABASS
- Grouper
- Chilean fish
- Fish filet order
- Chilean entree
- Marine food fish
- Saltwater swimmer
- Chilean food fish
- Saltwater catch
- Cape Cod entrée
- Chilean ___ (Patagonian toothfish)
More clues leading to the result OPAHS
- Colorful fish
- Brightly colored fish
- Brightly-colored fish
- Vividly colored fish
- Some aquarium denizens
- Colorful swimmers
- Warm-blooded fish
- Large sea fish, highly colored.
- Atlantic fish.
- Large tropical fishes.
More clues leading to the result GUPPY
- Popular tropical fish
- Aquarium dweller
- Small swimmer
- Common aquarium fish
- Aquarium swimmer
- Tiny aquarium inhabitant
- Just a little fishy
- Rainbow fish
- Aquarium fish
- Fish bowl resident.
More clues leading to the result GHOTI
- Jokey alternative spelling for "fish" widely attributed to George Bernard Shaw
- Humorous spelling of "fish"
- Shaw's phonetic spelling of "fish"
- "Fish"
More clues leading to the result KIPPER
More clues leading to the result LOACH
- Aquarium bottom-feeder
- Aquarium bottomfeeder
- Fresh-water fish.
- Fish akin to the carp.
- Fish.
- Freshwater fish
- Aquarium fish
- Carp's cousin
- Slender freshwater fish
- Aquarium cleaner-fish
More clues leading to the result SOLES
- Loafer bottoms
- They're on the bottom
- Shoe parts
- They're always underfoot
- Converse converse sides
- People walk all over them
- They're underfoot
- Loafer's bottoms
- Places for treads
- Brogue parts
More clues leading to the result SCUP
- Food fish
- Atlantic food fish With 48 Across,
- Atlantic food fish
- Fish commonly known as a porgy
- North Atlantic food fish
- Atlantic fish
- Porgy variety
- Food fish.
- American porgy.
- A food fish like the porgy.
More clues leading to the result OLDWIFE
More clues leading to the result LAKEBASS
More clues leading to the result CHUB
- Carp-like fish
- Minnow relative
- Great Lakes fish
- Kin of a carp
- Ray-finned fish
- Ray-finned freshwater fish
- Whitefish cousin
- Fat fish?
- Extra pounds, in slang
- Black porgy, e.g.
More clues leading to the result HADDOCK
More clues leading to the result ALEWIVES
- Some Taproom owners
- Lake Michigan herring
- Pub proprietresses
- Old English pub proprietors
- Herringlike fish.
- Atlantic Coast herrings.
- Fish of the herring family.
- Herring-like fish.
- Fish.
- Small fish
More clues leading to the result TUNAS
- Albacore and yellowtail
- Bluefins
- Skipjack and bluefin
- Albacore and others
- Bluefin and yellowfin
- Albacore and bluefin
- Skipjack and albacore
- Albacore and yellowfin
- Bluefin and albacore
- Sandwich orders
More clues leading to the result SHINER
- Pugilist's blemish
- Mouse
- Slugfest souvenir
- Souvenir from a slugger
- Result of a punch in the face, perhaps
- Result of walking into a door, perhaps
- Haymaker's result
- Black eye
- Boxer's bruise
- Eye shadow?
More clues leading to the result POUTS
- Is a sore loser
- Makes a face
- Jeopardizes Santa's visit
- Looks sullen
- Acts sulky
- Lip-protruding expressions
- Sulks
- Acts petulant
- Fits of pique
- Sullen looks
More clues leading to the result GROPE
- Feel
- Harass, in a physical way
- Feel inappropriate?
- Inappropriate feeling?
- Be tentative
- Feel one's way
- Search uncertainly
- Search blindly
- __ for words
- Cast about
More clues leading to the result POUT
- Wear a long puss
- Be a sore loser, in a way
- Put on a face
- Look of displeasure
- Get all mopey
- Sullen look
- Fit of sulking
- Sulk in silence
- Keep a stiff lower lip?
- Sulk