Clues for the word "CLAM"
We've had 215 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 560 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on December 13, 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
- Uncommunicative creature!
- One might be cooked "casino"-style
- Chowder bivalve
- Chowder protein
Last Seen In
- Daily American - December 13, 2025
- New York Times - December 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 23, 2025
- New York Times - November 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 11, 2025
- Daily American - October 07, 2025
- LA Times - October 07, 2025
- Daily American - September 19, 2025
- LA Times - September 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 11, 2025
- Daily American - August 29, 2025
- Daily American - August 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 25, 2025
- New York Times - July 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 20, 2025
- New York Times - July 19, 2025
- Daily American - July 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 05, 2025
- Daily American - June 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - May 18, 2025
- Daily American - May 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 10, 2025
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