Clues for the word "CLAM"
We've had 211 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 530 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer crossword on March 18, 2025.
Definition of clam
- v. t. - A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
- v. t. - Strong pinchers or forceps.
- v. t. - A kind of vise, usually of wood.
- v. t. - To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
- v. i. - To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
- n. - Claminess; moisture.
- n. - A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
- v. t. & i. - To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
Referring Clues
- Silent one
- Symbol of happiness
- With 15-Across, linguini topping
- Smacker
- Hardly a blabbermouth
- Dollar, in slang
- Symbol of noncommunication
- Bisque bit
- Shut (up)
- Chowder morsel
- Steamer, e.g.
- One who won't tell
- Secretive sort
- One who's close-mouthed
- Soup or sandwich ingredient
- Buck
- Littleneck, e.g.
- Dollar, slangily
- Silent sort
- Quahog, e.g.
- Good secret-keeper
- Quahog or geoduck
- Bisque morsel
- Chowder choice
- Simoleon
- Quest after quahogs
- Shoreline digger's find
- Mum one
- Chowder ingredient
- Chowder bit
- Stop talking, with "up"
- Manhattan ___ chowder
- Dig mollusks
- Chowder chunk
- Casino delicacy?
- Quahog
- Hardly a big talker
- Seafood item
- Uncommunicative one
- Taciturn one
- Bit of chowder
- Chowder mollusk
- Bisque morsel, perhaps
- Marine mollusk
- Epitome of happiness
- Chowder ingredient, often
- Happiness standard?
- Type of chowder
- Embodiment of happiness?
- Seafood morsel
- Symbol of silence
- Happy bivalve?
- Thing to be as happy as
- Symbol of uncommunicativeness
- Chowder tidbit
- Bit of dough
- Be silent, with "up"
- Bivalve mollusk
- No blabbermouth
- Close-mouthed one
- Cherrystone
- Coquina
- Cherrystone, e.g.
- Kind of dip or diggers
- Chowder shellfish
- Dollar, casually
- Ming, the oldest animal ever discovered (400+ years), was one
- Paella ingredient
- Don't talk, with, "up"
- Smackeroo
- Paradigm of happiness
- Symbol of silence
- Untalkative one
- Bivalve
- Untalkative sort
- One disinclined to talk
- Quahog, for one
- One unwilling to talk
- ___ chowder
- Shell occupant
- Happy mollusk
- Blabber's opposite
- Dollar, so to speak
- Tight-lipped sort
- Shellfish
- Pearl container
- Happy as a ___
- Cherrystone or littleneck, e.g.
- Certain steamer
- Cherrystone, for one
- Paella ingredient, perhaps
- Chowder type
- Can be hard-shelled or soft-shelled
- Chowder favorite
- "Happy" mollusk
- Chowder thingie
- Beach burrower
- Raw bar offering
- Certain bivalve
- Nontalkative one
- Shelled creature
- Steamer, for one
- Paella morsel
- Place for steamers
- Cioppino ingredient
- Mollusk
- Tight-lipped one
- "On the half shell" bite
- Metaphor for reticence
- Pasta alle vongole ingredient
- Simolean
- Tasty sea creature
- Littleneck or cherrystone
- Burrowing sea mollusk
- Refuse to talk, with "up"
- One who's tight-lipped
- Mollusk in a red or white linguine sauce
- Chowder flavor
- Happpy one
- Quiet sort, so to speak
- Chowder item
- ___ chowder (type of soup}
- Sea creature in a shell
- ___ chowder soup
- Chowder content
- Mollusc left in river
- Close-mouthed mollusk?
- Certain marine mollusk
- Seafood in a shell
- Word with up, bake or chowder
- Elvis "Do the ___"
- What Elvis dug at the beach?
- What Elvis did at the beach?
- Edible shellfish
- Proverbially reticent marine mollusc
- Large bivalve
- Mollusc rising with difficulty out of sea
- Something to bake on many a morning?
- Shellfish - 100 pounds a thousand
- Shellfish - secretive type
- Shellfish - secretive person
- Noisy insect put off shy person
- Tightly closed shellfish
- Nearly grip a shellfish
- Shellfish left in river
- Geoduck or quahog
- Shucking target
- Bivalve creature
- Blabbermouth's opposite
- Edible mollusc
- Burrowing mollusc
- Shellfish student found in river
- Burrowing marine mollusc living in sand or mud
- Pacific centre revolved around shellfish
- Mollusc around lake before noon
- A sea creature shut up?
- Epitome of quiet
- Razor ___
- Steamer
- Mollusc caught on line in the morning
- Raw-bar tidbit
- Raw bar bit
- Certain seafood
- Digger's find
- Linguine seafood sauce morsel
- Edible mollusk
- Soft-shell item, maybe
- It's shut up on many a morning
- One keeping a secret, metaphorically
- Person unlikely to sing
- Linguine sauce morsel
- Tough person to get information from
- Morsel in a "casino" dish
- Lead-in to bake or shell
- Shellfish in bisque
- Silent type
- On many a morning, may be baking!
- Bivalve mollusc
- Raw bar morsel
- Littleneck mollusk
- Shellfish at a bake
- Certain mollusk
- Morsel in a linguine sauce
- Cioppino bit
- Geoduck, e.g.
- Uncommunicative creature?
- It may feed you a little but tell you nothing
- End of a "happy" simile
- Something to shut up and eat?
- Zip it (up)
- New England chowder mollusk
- Half-shell serving
- Animal metaphor for a quiet person
- Not talk, with "up"
- Mollusk in jaecheop-guk
- Type of mollusk
- ___ up (refuse to talk)
- Chowder head?
- New England ___ chowder
- Mollusk that may have a soft shell
- Linguine with ___ sauce
- Something to bake on many a morning?
- What a quahog is
- ___bake (seafood feast with Wampanoag origins)
- $1 bill, in slang
- Go silent, with "up"
- ___ up (be silent)
- Jaecheop-guk ingredient
- Dollar, informally
- Oyster relative
- Jogaetang mollusk
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 18, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 13, 2025
- Daily American - March 12, 2025
- USA Today - March 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 05, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 29, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 20, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 17, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 28, 2024
- New York Times - October 23, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 08, 2024
- USA Today - October 07, 2024
- New York Times - October 02, 2024
- USA Today - September 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 25, 2024
- Daily American - August 04, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 08, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 04, 2024
- LA Times - July 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - May 26, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 17, 2024
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