Slippery swimmers

The answer

EELS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EELS answer page.

Used 72 times across 30 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EELS

Every other clue in this collection answered by EELS, most used first.

• Congers - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
• Morays - used 97 times, most recently in 2026
• Snaky swimmers - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Snakelike swimmers - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• Slithery swimmers - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Snakelike fishes - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Snakelike fish - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Snaky fish - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Lampreys - used 32 times, most recently in 2015
• Slippery fish - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Fish - used 29 times, most recently in 1976
• Slippery ones - used 28 times, most recently in 2015
• Fish dish - used 27 times, most recently in 1999
• Sushi fish - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
• Slithery fish - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Sinuous swimmers - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Wriggly swimmers - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "Electric" swimmers - used 21 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Slippery - EELY, used 114 times
• "Slippery" trees - ELMS, used 31 times
• Slippery ___ eel - ASAN, used 22 times

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