The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SNAIL which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2016.
Spiral-shelled creature crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SNAIL | 67 % | 5 |
| NAUTILUS | 33 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Spiral-shelled creature
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- snail
- nautilus
- whelk
- conch
- eland
- triton
- family nautilidae
- nautilidae
- shell
- ammonite
- columella
- turban
Crossword Answer definitions
SNAIL noun- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- (by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
- A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- The pod of the snail clover.
- To move or travel very slowly.
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 SNAIL
- Slow food from the garden, perhaps?
- Creature in a shell
- No racer
- Shelled creature
- Slowpoke
- Exemplar of slowness
- Slow mover
- Garden gastropod
- ___ mail (E-mail alternative)
- ___ mail (Canada Post, perhaps)
More clues leading to the result NAUTILUS
- Ship created by Jule Verne for "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
- First atomic submarine
- Nemo's submarine
- It is a many-chambered thing
- Atomic sub
- Captain Nemo's submarine
- Nemo's sub
- First nuclear-powered sub
- First atomic-powered submarine, now under construction.
- Name for the U. S. atom-powered submarine.