Clues for the word "SCALLOP"
We've had 40 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 45 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on April 11, 2026.
Definition of scallop
- n. - Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2.
- n. - One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.
- n. - One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.
- v. t. - To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.
- n. - To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.
Referring Clues
- Coquilles St. Jacques ingredient
- Certain shell
- Seafood tidbit
- Type of mollusk
- Shellfish
- Mixed seafood item
- Edible shellfish
- Seafood with no eyes
- Seafood morsel
- Edible mollusk
- Bit of surf in surf and turf
- Fan shaped mollusk
- Shore-dinner tidbit
- Shell fish delicacy
- Oyster's kin
- Shore dinner morsel
- Seafood - shell
- Seafood concession cut by demand
- Mistakenly calls the operator for something to eat
- Bivalve with radiating ridges on shell
- Bivalve with fan-shaped shell
- Shellfish - pilgrim badge
- Seafood
- Shellfish - badge worn by pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela
- Head back to hill for a bit of seafood
- Seafood used to make curves round the edge
- Seafood makes nearly all collapse with convulsions
- Second summons to work on shellfish
- Second policeman takes everything from a shell
- Pink mollusc
- The patrolling cops detained everybody at the fishmonger's
- Ribbed bivalve
- Mollusk
- Edible bivalve
- Seafood item
- Fluted shell
- Bivalve mollusk
- Bouillabaisse tidbit
- Calls wildly for work and something to eat
- Fluted edge
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - April 11, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 19, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 16, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 16, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 02, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 03, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 08, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 14, 2022
- LA Times - May 10, 2017
- Mirror Daily - March 27, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 28, 2016
- Mirror Daily - March 27, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - January 12, 2016
- Guardian Quick - November 02, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 26, 2015
- Wall Street Journal - August 14, 2015
- Universal - August 11, 2014
- Universal - March 31, 2014
- New York Times - March 26, 2014
- Guardian Quick - October 14, 2012
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 22, 2012
- Guardian Prize - October 22, 2011
- Guardian Quick - June 17, 2011
- Guardian Quick - April 06, 2011
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