The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SHAD , but the solution may also be SOLE which is one of the most recent solution (2017 in LA Times).
Food fish crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SHAD | 19 % | 4 |
| SOLE | 10 % | 4 |
| SMELT | 7 % | 5 |
| IDE | 7 % | 3 |
| COD | 6 % | 3 |
| TUNA | 5 % | 4 |
| CERO | 5 % | 4 |
| LING | 4 % | 4 |
| BASS | 3 % | 4 |
| SCUP | 2 % | 4 |
| CARP | 2 % | 4 |
| SEABASS | 2 % | 7 |
| TROUT | 2 % | 5 |
| HAKE | 1 % | 4 |
| EEL | 1 % | 3 |
| SCAD | 1 % | 4 |
| SNAPPER | 1 % | 7 |
| DOVERSOLE | 1 % | 9 |
| GAR | 1 % | 3 |
| SCROD | 1 % | 5 |
| PIKE | 1 % | 4 |
| HADDOCK | 1 % | 7 |
| EELS | 1 % | 4 |
| SARDINE | 1 % | 7 |
| OPAH | 1 % | 4 |
| HALIBUT | 1 % | 7 |
| TUNAS | 1 % | 5 |
| SPRAT | 1 % | 5 |
| PERCH | 1 % | 5 |
| PORGY | 1 % | 5 |
| WRASSE | 1 % | 6 |
| BONITO | 1 % | 6 |
| POMPANO | 1 % | 7 |
| SNAPPERS | 1 % | 8 |
| DACE | 0 % | 4 |
| STERLET | 0 % | 7 |
| ALEWIFE | 0 % | 7 |
| WALLEYES | 0 % | 8 |
| JUREL | 0 % | 5 |
| MULLET | 0 % | 6 |
| CROAKER | 0 % | 7 |
| PORGIES | 0 % | 7 |
| REDSNAPPER | 0 % | 10 |
| SKATE | 0 % | 5 |
| CONGER | 0 % | 6 |
| GRUNT | 0 % | 5 |
| MACKEREL | 0 % | 8 |
| SPOT | 0 % | 4 |
| BONITOS | 0 % | 7 |
| SHADS | 0 % | 5 |
| WHITING | 0 % | 7 |
| GARS | 0 % | 4 |
| SMELTS | 0 % | 6 |
| SAUREL | 0 % | 6 |
| ORANGEROUGHY | 0 % | 12 |
| CODS | 0 % | 4 |
| MORAYS | 0 % | 6 |
| REDPERCH | 0 % | 8 |
| ANCHOVY | 0 % | 7 |
| TURBOT | 0 % | 6 |
| SALMON | 0 % | 6 |
| STERLETS | 0 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Food fish
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- fish feed
- fruits of the sea
- fruit of the sea
- fishmeal
- fish stock
- sockeye
- seafare
- tuna
- chalk fish
- milkfish
- sea vegetable
- tofish
Crossword Answer definitions
SHAD noun- Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
- The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 SNAPPER
- Food fish
- Click beetle
- Muttonfish, e.g.
- Fish with curt comments?
- Food fish that's often red
- Red fish
- RED __
- Seafood serving
- Seafood menu choice
- Kind of turtle.
More clues leading to the result DOVERSOLE
- Food fish
- North Sea catch of the day
- It's flat
- Commonly eaten flatfish
- Fish treat
- Mediterranean Sea catch
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 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 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 HADDOCK
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 SARDINE
- Small fish
- Canned pilchard
- Small food fish
- Fish sometimes used to make dashi
- Canned fish
- Fish in a tin
- Fish in a can
- Tightly-tinned fish
- Cramped fish
- Fish in oil
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 HALIBUT
- Flounder's cousin
- Tasty swimmer
- Food fish
- Flounder relative
- Large member of the flounder family
- Fish shop selection
- Food flatfish
- Flounder kin
- Largest flatfish
- Fish dish
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 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 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 PORGY
- Bess' love
- Bess man
- Bess's man
- Gershwin hero
- Guy who loves Bess
- Love of Bess
- Object of Bess's affection
- "___ and Bess"
- Catfish Row hero
- Gershwin's lame beggar
More clues leading to the result WRASSE
- Tropical food-fish
- Spiny-finned marine fish with thick lips
- Razorfish, e.g.
- Brightly colored tropical fish
- Tropical fish with powerful teeth
- Aquarium fish
- Aquarium fish that sleeps in sand
- Popular aquarium fish
- Labroid fish.
- Edible marine fish.
More clues leading to the result BONITO
- Mackerel's cousin
- Tuna relative
- Game fish
- Mackerellike fish
- Mackerel relative
- Tuna's cousin
- Fish in the tuna family
- Mackerel-like fish
- Beautiful, in Barcelona
- Mackerel cousin
More clues leading to the result POMPANO
- ___ Beach, Fla.
- Gulf States food fish
- South Atlantic fish with a beach named after it
- ___ Beach, Florida
- Florida city, familiarly
- Food fish.
- Delectable fish.
- Beach of Florida
- Food fish
- Florida food fish
More clues leading to the result SNAPPERS
- Certain turtles
- Food fishes.
- Party "crackers."
- Fish resembling the bass.
- Turtles.
- Food fish.
- Food fish of warm seas.
- Cracker bon-bons.
- Warm-sea fish
- Food fish
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 STERLET
- Caspian Sea sturgeon
- Caviar fish.
- Source of caviar.
- Small sturgeon.
- Sturgeon.
- Caviar sturgeon.
- Food fish.
- Choice Caspian sturgeon.
- Source of excellent caviar
- Caviar source
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 WALLEYES
More clues leading to the result JUREL
More clues leading to the result MULLET
- Daring do?
- Popular '80s-'90s do
- Short-in-front, long-in-back men's hairstyle
- Tropical fish
- Striped food fish.
- Edible fish.
- Food fish.
- Little fishes.
- Fish having feeble teeth
- Goatfish
More clues leading to the result CROAKER
More clues leading to the result PORGIES
- "Sea bream"
- Atlantic catches
- Fish related to snappers
- Fish also called sea breams
- Crimson fish with blue spots.
- Food fish
- Saltwater fish
- Atlantic food fishes
- Saltwater fishes
- Some Atlantic food fishes
More clues leading to the result REDSNAPPER
- Fish native to Mexico
- Seafood entrée
- Inattentive Cincinnati player?
- Cincinnati center fielder moonlighting as a photographer?
- Seafood order
- Popular seafood
- Popular seafood selection
- Fish house entrée
- Popular grilled fish
- Seafood serving
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 CONGER
- Scaleless eel
- Japanese sushi eel
- Snaky swimmer
- Large eel
- Eel
- Scaleless eel.
- Eel.
- Kind of eel.
- Food fish.
- See 22 Across
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 MACKEREL
- ___ sky (altocumulus expanse)
- Holy fish?
- Atlantic food fish
- Salt-cured sushi
- Fish, often holy
- Seafood
- North Atlantic food fish
- Food fish
- Yellowfish, for one
- Catch of the day
More clues leading to the result SPOT
- Dalmatian's name?
- Dry-cleaner's target
- Good name for a leopard?
- It may be soft or sweet
- Locale
- TV commercial
- "See __ run"
- Dick and Jane's dog
- Dick's dog
- Pet's name
More clues leading to the result BONITOS
- Tuna-like fish
- Fish that sound good in Spanish
- Atlantic coast fishes, skipjacks.
- Skipjacks.
- Mackerellike fishes.
- Salt-water food fish.
- Food fish.
- Tunas' kin
- Fish related to the tuna
More clues leading to the result SHADS
- Roe sources
- Some herrings
- Certain food fishes
- Herrings' cousins
- Fish used for bait
- Herringlike fish
- Salt-water fishes.
- Herrings' relatives.
- River fish.
- Food fish
More clues leading to the result WHITING
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 SMELTS
- Refines metal
- Refines, as ore
- Prepares ores
- Salmon relatives
- Refines
- Small silvery fishes
- Processes ore
- Does foundry work
- Produces steel
- Processes, as ore
More clues leading to the result SAUREL
- Salt-water food fish.
- Ocean fish
- Saltwater food fish
- Food fish
- Fish related to a scad
- Horse mackerel
- Mackerel's kin
- Long, bony fish
- Elongated fish
More clues leading to the result ORANGEROUGHY
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 MORAYS
- Eels that live in warm seas
- Sea snakes
- Sharp-toothed eels
- Conger cousins
- Eels
- Coral reef eels.
- Food fish.
- Eels.
- Voracious eels
- Coral reef predators
More clues leading to the result REDPERCH
More clues leading to the result ANCHOVY
- Caesar salad option
- Caesar salad morsel, maybe
- Pizza topping
- Antipasto fish
- Herring at a cocktail party.
- Type of herring.
- Antipasto item.
- Herringlike fish
- Food fish
- Tapenade ingredient
More clues leading to the result TURBOT
- Food fish
- "___ War" (1995 Canada-Spain fishing dispute)
- Diamond-shaped flatfish
- Round-bodied flatfish
- European flounder
- Tasty flatfish
- European flatfish.
- Flatfish.
- European flatfish
- European angler's catch
More clues leading to the result SALMON
- __ P. Chase
- Lox
- Yellowish-pink
- Waterfall jumper
- Sockeye ___
- Mousse fish
- Seafood selection
- Chinook or coho
- Shade of pink
- Sockeye, e.g.