The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SMELT which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2017.
Small food fish crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SMELT | 67 % | 5 |
| ALEWIFE | 7 % | 7 |
| CROAKER | 7 % | 7 |
| SARDINE | 7 % | 7 |
| SPRAT | 7 % | 5 |
| STERLETS | 7 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Small food fish
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- minnow
- anchovy
- sardine
- herring
- brook trout
- chinook
- salmon
- rainbow trout
- tule
- tinker
- atlantic salmon
- brown trout
Crossword Answer definitions
SMELT noun- Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
- A fool; a simpleton.
- To sense a smell or smells.
- Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
- (without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
- To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
- To exercise sagacity.
- To detect or perceive; often with out.
- To give heed to.
- Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
- Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
- To fuse or melt two things into one, especially in order to extract metal from ore; to meld
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 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 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 CROAKER
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 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