The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CHIMERA which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2014.
Mythological monster crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CHIMERA | 80 % | 7 |
| LAMIA | 20 % | 5 |
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Crossword Answer definitions
CHIMERA noun- Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail).
- Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.
- Anything composed of very disparate parts.
- A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
- A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
- An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
- Usually chimaera: a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result CHIMERA
- Fire-breather of myth
- Mythological monster
- Female creature with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail
- Lion-headed monster
- Idle fancy
- Unrealizable fantasy
- Imaginary monster
- Monster with both a lion's and goat's head
- Mythological fire-breather
- Fire-breathing Greek monster