Slithery fish
The crossword clue "Slithery fish" is answered by EEL, a 3-letter entry. Used 110 times across 26 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 24 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
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EEL
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EEL answer page.
Used 110 times across 26 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 24 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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