Soft-shell clams
The crossword clue "Soft-shell clams" is answered by STEAMERS, a 8-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
STEAMERS
8 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STEAMERS answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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