Crossword clue
Food fish crossword clue
12 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "food fish", from as short as 4 letters up to 10, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Count your squares, then read one row. The shortest thing that fits is SHAD at 4; the longest is GROUNDFISH at 10.
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What this list looks like
Length 4 carries 3 answers, the largest group on this page.
SHAD, SOLE, TUNA fills a 4-square slot, and a compact answer is usually the one a crossword wants.
Every answer here is an example of what the clue describes, not another word for it.
Which one does the setter mean?
Four squares is where this clue usually lands, and SHAD, SOLE and TUNA all fit. SOLE is the most common in British puzzles and TUNA in American ones, so the crossings and the paper both matter.
How these differ
These sort by water and by shape. SOLE and TURBOT are flatfish that lie on the seabed, both prized and both expensive. TUNA and TUNNY are the same fish, the second British and older, a fast open-ocean swimmer. SALMON and TROUT are related and both move between fresh and salt water. SHAD is a herring that runs up rivers to spawn and was once the most eaten fish on the American east coast. The clue is a favourite of setters precisely because so many of these are four letters.
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Where these answers come from
These came out of a dictionary. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “food fish” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.
Common questions
- What is the answer to the crossword clue "food fish"?
- There is more than one. 12 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares is where this clue usually lands, and SHAD, SOLE and TUNA all fit. SOLE is the most common in British puzzles and TUNA in American ones, so the crossings and the paper both matter.
- How many letters is the answer to "food fish"?
- Anything from 4 to 10. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.