Clues for the word "CRAB"
We've had 296 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 604 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on March 25, 2025.
Definition of crab
- n. - One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
- n. - The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
- a. - A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
- a. - A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- a. - A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- a. - A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- a. - A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- a. - A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- v. t. - To make sour or morose; to embitter.
- v. t. - To beat with a crabstick.
- v. i. - To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
- a. - Sour; rough; austere.
Referring Clues
- Sourpuss
- Complain
- Callaloo ingredient
- Grouch
- Constant complainer
- Grumbler
- Twins follower
- Disagreeable sort
- Grumble
- Horseshoe ___
- Taurus : Bull :: Cancer : ___
- Move sideways
- Shore catch
- Bellyache
- Ill-tempered one
- Beach sidler
- One who complains, complains, complains
- Zodiac symbol
- Squawker
- Sea creature that moves sideways
- Kvetching sort
- Sea creature that sidles
- Kvetcher
- Maryland seafood specialty
- Find fault
- Fiddler on the reef
- Seafood option
- Seafood staple
- Word that unites this puzzle's theme entries
- Grump
- Grumpy old man
- Grumpy person
- Red Lobster entrée
- It may be a hermit or a fiddler
- Old grouch
- Grumpy sort
- Ornery sort
- Chesapeake Bay catch
- Fiddler, for one
- Disagreeable one
- Astrological crustacean
- Clawed crustacean
- Seek out fiddlers?
- Soft-shell seafood
- Kvetch
- Gripe
- Zodiac animal
- Cake ingredient?
- Grouchy person
- Baltimore seafood specialty
- Sidle
- Complainer
- Dungeness delicacy
- Scuttling crustacean
- Bisque crustacean
- Crawling crustacean
- "Hermit" crustacean
- Crustacean with edible legs
- Seashore scavenger
- Seafood selection
- Lobster relative
- Complainer, slangily
- Curmudgeonly sort
- Seafood serving
- Bellyacher
- Zodiac creature
- It may be cracked
- Seafood-salad tidbit
- Grouse
- Curmudgeon
- "Alaska King" seafood
- Fiddler or hermit
- Fiddler on the beach, e.g.
- Maryland specialty
- King or Dungeness
- Maryland cake ingredient
- Zodiac delicacy
- Word with apple or grass
- Seafood sometimes imitated
- Maryland delicacy
- Chesapeake crustacean
- Dungeness or hermit
- Cake ingredient, perhaps
- Fourth sign of the zodiac's symbol
- Malcontent
- Part of a seafood platter, perhaps
- Type of cake
- Grouchy sort
- Grouchy one
- Ornery type
- "The Deadliest Catch" catch
- Grouchy guy
- Crotchety sort
- Kind of cake popular in Maryland
- Clawed crawler
- Cranky crustacean?
- Surly sort
- "Alaska King" seafood
- King or fiddler
- Shell fish
- Fiddler on the reef?
- Word with "grass" or "apple"
- Hermit or horseshoe, e.g.
- Creature that sidles
- Shore dinner staple
- Seafood often imitated
- Irritable sort
- Beach creature
- Beach crawler
- Shore crawler
- Beach critter
- ... and another
- Cranky type
- ___ Louie salad
- "Cracked" seafood
- Crustacean
- Horseshoe, for one
- Zodiac crustacean
- Zodiac sign cancer the
- One pissing and moaning
- Maryland food specialty
- Fiddler, e.g.
- Fiddler on the beach?
- "Surf and Turf" legs
- Seafood salad ingredient
- Seafood entree
- Dour one
- Sea creature with pincers
- Beach 'hermit
- Hermit on the beach
- Hermit or king follower
- Bisque ingredient
- Ariel's friend Sebastian, e.g.
- Lobster cousin
- Twins follower in astrology
- California roll ingredient
- Decapod crustacean
- Fiddler on the beach
- One who woke up on the wrong side of the bed, say
- Dungeness, for one
- July's Zodiac symbol
- Sidling sea creature
- Seafood choice
- Buy for bisque
- Nebula named for a crustacean, which can precede the starts of 17-, 25-, 39-, 51- and 64-Across
- Hermit, for one
- Sebastian in "The Little Mermaid," e.g.
- ___ cake
- Alaskan king ___ (seafood)
- Essence of a certain cocktail
- Chesapeake Bay crustacean
- Fare you can "crack" before eating
- Nebula animal
- Sushi selection
- Seafood restaurant order
- Chesapeake delicacy
- Chronic complainer
- Fiddler
- Seafood delicacy
- Shell-shedding creature
- Ten-legged zodiac animal
- One in a bad mood
- "Alaskan king" seafood
- Maryland crustacean
- Whine lover?
- Cranky one
- Word with grass
- ... twins, ___, lion ...
- Scrooge's sign?
- Horseshoe or hermit
- Seafood you crack
- Rowing gaffe
- Malleted seafood
- Fiddler ___
- Alaskan king ___
- Seafood item
- Sea crawler
- Part of a seafood platter, maybe
- Delicious sea creature
- Part of a seafood platter, sometimes
- Sea creature with claws
- Delicious sea creature with claws
- Hard-shelled sea creature
- Seafood crustacean
- Dungeoness or Hermit
- Some seafood
- It may have a hard or soft shell
- Louie meat
- Seafood creature with claws
- It sidles on a beach
- Reggae record label
- Jimmy Buffett's dinner?
- Cranky Weezer song?
- Edible crustacean
- Weezer song about a crustacean?
- Helmet "Street ___"
- Shakespeare's dog Nipper?
- But catching one is no credit to a sailor!
- Can one sidle right into a taxi?
- Crustacean - apple
- Marine crustacean (seen on 1 across?)
- Credit a seaman with something caught
- Water creature caught in a small boat
- Nautical nipper
- Crustacean with pincers - grumble
- Sideways scuttler
- Food from the sea
- Pincered crustacean
- Sidewalk pedestrian
- Seafood (that can be caught by a rower?)
- See 19
- There's something fishy about removing lines from bar code
- Fruit with pincers
- Baltimore seafood favorite
- Weezer crustacean song
- Chesapeake Bay catch, often
- Irascible sort
- Hermit or king
- ___ Nebula
- Rock-pool crustacean
- Zodiac Cancer symbol
- Crustacean with nippers
- 4 apple
- Irritable person runs into vehicle
- Mellor finally enters taxi - what a sour-tempered person!
- The constellation Cancer
- Habitual grump
- Lion's stellar neighbor
- Seafood served with a nutcracker
- Seafood in salads
- Seafood you mallet
- One scuttling sideways
- Twins-Lion go-between
- Shore decapod
- Fiddler on the reef?
- Seafood salad morsel
- Sidling creature
- Malleted food
- Crustacean found on seashores
- Dungeness creature
- Grumpy guy
- Grumpy crustacean?
- Shore sidler
- Ill-humored one
- Sand scurrier
- ___ Nebula, part of the constellation Taurus
- Edible shellfish
- Horseshoe, e.g.
- Whiner
- Food often served with a mallet
- One likely to snap
- Maryland seafood delicacy
- It's a shore thing
- Seabed sidler
- Cantankerous sort
- One walking sideways
- Would you credit a sailor catching one in a boat?
- Certain shellfish
- Sideways-walking crustacean
- Crustacean with pincers
- Dungeness ___
- Bad-tempered person
- SpongeBob SquarePants' boss, e.g.
- Marine creature bringing credit to a seaman
- Hermit or fiddler
- Complain like a shellfish?
- Seafood in California rolls
- Sideways-walking creature
- Creature with a shell
- Shape of some Maryland decals
- Crustacean that can pinch
- ___ sticks (imitation seafood)
- Could you credit a sailor catching one?
- Grumpy one
- ___ Rangoon
- Coastal scuttler
- Can one sidle right into a taxi?
- Maryland catch
- Chesapeake shellfish
- Seafood in poo cha
- One who's always complaining, complaining, complaining
- Animal with a distinctive walk
- Crustacean in some "cakes"
- What might get you in a pinch?
- "You cannot teach a ___ to walk straight": Aristophanes
- Crustacean whose species range in size from .2 inches to 12 feet
- Singapore chili ___ (seafood dish)
- Sebastian of "The Little Mermaid," for one
- ___ Rangoon: seafood-filled appetizer
- Fiddler ___: creature with asymmetric claws
- ___ apple
- Bad-tempered sort
- July zodiac animal
- Lobster's relative
- Hermit or horseshoe
- Word before "apple" or "cake"
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - March 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 22, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 07, 2025
- Mirror Mini - February 27, 2025
- USA Today - February 21, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 18, 2025
- Family Time - February 17, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 04, 2025
- Daily American - January 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 13, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 13, 2025
- Daily American - December 20, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 16, 2024
- Daily American - December 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 01, 2024
- Family Time - December 01, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 12, 2024
- Daily American - October 08, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 23, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - September 22, 2024
- LA Times - September 19, 2024
- Daily American - September 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 09, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 19, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 06, 2024
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