Fish.
The crossword clue "Fish." is answered by SMELT, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 1973; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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SMELT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SMELT answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 1973; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SMELT
Every other clue in this collection answered by SMELT, most used first.
- Silvery fish - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Refine, as ore - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Refine ore - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Silvery food fish - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Food fish - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Refine, as metal - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Process, as ore - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Refine - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Refine metal - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Small silvery fish - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Extract metal from - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Small fish. - used 13 times, most recently in 2004
- Troutlike fish - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- "He who ___ it, dealt it" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Small food fish - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Get the lead out? - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Do refinery work - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Fuse, as ore - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Process ore - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Sparling - used 8 times, most recently in 1993
- Great Lakes fish - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Salmonlike fish - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Silver fish - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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- Aquarium fish - TETRA, used 214 times
- Colorful aquarium fish - TETRA, used 47 times
- "Rainbow" fish - TROUT, used 39 times
- Raw fish dish - SUSHI, used 37 times
- Japanese fish dish - SUSHI, used 35 times
- Tropical fish - TETRA, used 33 times
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