Herring relative
The crossword clue "Herring relative" is answered by SHAD, a 4-letter entry. Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SHAD
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SHAD answer page.
Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- ALEWIFE (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for SHAD
Every other clue in this collection answered by SHAD, most used first.
- Roe source - used 132 times, most recently in 2026
- Food fish - used 86 times, most recently in 2024
- Herring's kin - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Roe provider - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Herringlike fish - used 38 times, most recently in 2022
- Fish. - used 17 times, most recently in 1975
- Herring's cousin - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Herring kin - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Edible herring - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Caviar source - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Certain herring - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Source of roe - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Atlantic food fish - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Herring - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Herring cousin - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Herring's relative - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
- River herring - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Roe producer - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Type of herring - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Caviar fish - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Cousin of a herring - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Deep-bodied herring - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- ___ roe - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Fish usually caught in the winter - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Migratory herring - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Sardine cousin - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Rabbit relative - HARE, used 105 times
- Relative of etc. - ETAL, used 97 times
- Onion relative - LEEK, used 83 times
- Bassoon relative - OBOE, used 69 times
- Gull relative - TERN, used 51 times
- Frog relative - TOAD, used 46 times
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