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 |
| SEABASS | 2 % | 7 |
| CARP | 2 % | 4 |
| TROUT | 2 % | 5 |
| SNAPPER | 1 % | 7 |
| HAKE | 1 % | 4 |
| EEL | 1 % | 3 |
| SCAD | 1 % | 4 |
| GAR | 1 % | 3 |
| DOVERSOLE | 1 % | 9 |
| HADDOCK | 1 % | 7 |
| SCROD | 1 % | 5 |
| PIKE | 1 % | 4 |
| SPRAT | 1 % | 5 |
| PORGY | 1 % | 5 |
| PERCH | 1 % | 5 |
| SNAPPERS | 1 % | 8 |
| WRASSE | 1 % | 6 |
| BONITO | 1 % | 6 |
| POMPANO | 1 % | 7 |
| EELS | 1 % | 4 |
| SARDINE | 1 % | 7 |
| OPAH | 1 % | 4 |
| HALIBUT | 1 % | 7 |
| TUNAS | 1 % | 5 |
| GARS | 0 % | 4 |
| BONITOS | 0 % | 7 |
| SHADS | 0 % | 5 |
| WHITING | 0 % | 7 |
| 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 |
| STERLET | 0 % | 7 |
| DACE | 0 % | 4 |
| MULLET | 0 % | 6 |
| ALEWIFE | 0 % | 7 |
| WALLEYES | 0 % | 8 |
| JUREL | 0 % | 5 |
| CROAKER | 0 % | 7 |
| PORGIES | 0 % | 7 |
| REDSNAPPER | 0 % | 10 |
| SKATE | 0 % | 5 |
| SPOT | 0 % | 4 |
| CONGER | 0 % | 6 |
| GRUNT | 0 % | 5 |
| MACKEREL | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 HADDOCK
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
More clues leading to the result STERLETS
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 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 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 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 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 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 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