Sea creature in the first verse of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” Crossword Clue

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Sea creature in the first verse of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
2. voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

CREATURE (noun)
1. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
2. a human being; `wight’ is an archaic term
FIRST (noun)
1. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
2. the time at which something is supposed to begin
FIRST (adjective)
1. indicating the beginning unit in a series
2. serving to set in motion
FIRST (adverb)
1. prominently forward
2. before anything else

Hint 3: Anagram

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More New Yorker Crossword (11/26/2024) Answers

Across

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9. Covered, as an outdoor wedding-reception area might be

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13. Hold oneself back from doing something

15. Rhyming bowlful

16. Shape with two foci

17. Smut, by another name

18. “For more examples, please refer to . . .”

19. Vocabulary

20. Point

21. Dutch city where Rembrandt was born

22. “How to Be an Antiracist” author Ibram X. ___

23. Support staffers

24. Hip-hop journalist who hosted the Fox series “Pump It Up!”

26. Part of "fwiw"

29. Tokyo-based design studio whose name means “clay” in Japanese

30. “There’s the ___”

33. Start of some Scottish names

34. Royal symbol in many Basquiat works

35. Org. that banned the pesticide DCPA in 2024

36. Palindromic kitchenware brand

37. Fried rice morsel

40. Surgeons might hold them, for short

41. The ___ Six (group of twentieth-century artists from Oklahoma)

43. Bronny James’s team, on scoreboards

45. Parting word

47. Far from blah

50. Uses as a pretense in order to avoid responsibility

51. Landlocked country whose official language is Italian

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1. Was shocked

2. Phrase coined by Kayla Lewis in a 2014 Vine to describe her eyebrows

3. Marked with grooves

4. Vehicle that doesn’t land on land

5. SO3, for example

6. Dangerous shoreline currents

7. Numbers corresponding to entries’ positions in matrices

8. Beloved figure who’s a four on the Kinsey scale, say

9. Very in French

10. Infighting

11. Phrase on a bottle of combination shampoo-conditioner-body wash

12. Short attention ___

14. Ideology that the historian Quinn Slobodian called “the ongoing effort to protect capitalism from democracy”

15. Team in last place, slangily

25. "It's ___-brainer!"

26. “Pass, thanks”

27. Yellow fleet

28. 'Move over!'

30. Send a nudge to

31. “Is it me or does it smell like ___ in here?”

32. Large string instrument

37. Word following red or giant

39. Language imitated by lorem ipsum

42. Popular gaming purchases in the late two-thousands

44. Sin City actress Jessica

46. Diplodocus or triceratops, for short

48. Start of a countdown

49. Cubes in some poke

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