Snake
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

ASP
Of southern Europe; similar to but smaller than the adder

BOA
Any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs

CUR
An inferior dog or one of mixed breed

DOG
A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds; "the dog barked all night"

ERR
Wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"

JIG
Any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping

JOG
A slow pace of running

LUG
Marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait

NAB
Take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"

NIP
A tart spicy quality

PAD
Add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair"

PIG
Domestic swine

RAT
Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse

SLY
Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

SOD
Surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots

TOW
The act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope; "the truck gave him a tow to the garage"

TUG
A sudden abrupt pull

ESS

EEL
Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

4 letters

TURN
Get by buying and selling; "the company turned a good profit after a year"

LIFT
The act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"

JERK
A sudden abrupt pull

INCH
A unit of measurement for advertising space

BEND
Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

COIL
Make without a potter's wheel; "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"

DRAG
The act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"

DRAW
A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his hooking"

FINK
Take the place of work of someone on strike

FLIP
(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled"

HALE
United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938)

HAUL
The act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly"

HOOK
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

LURK
Be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

NAIL
Succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course"

NICK
Mate successfully; of livestock

PULL
The act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you; "the pull up the hill had him breathing harder"; "his strenuous pulling strained his back"

ROVE
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"

SCUM
A film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid

SHIT
Obscene terms for feces

SLIP
A socially awkward or tactless act

SNOT
A person regarded as arrogant and annoying

TOAD
Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

LOOP
A flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane

TURD
Obscene terms for feces

WORM
Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

YANK
An American (especially to non-Americans)

YERK

WIND
Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"

5 letters

HYDRA
Small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp

MAMBA
Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal

ADDER
Small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia

VIPER
Venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw

COBRA
Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood

BEAST
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement

CRAWL
A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"

CREEK
A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"

CREEP
A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"

CROOK
A long staff with one end being hook shaped

CURVE
A pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter

DRIFT
A general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"

FLICK
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"

FLIRT
Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest

GLIDE
The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

HEAVE
Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

TRAWL
A conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths

TROLL
Angling by drawing a baited line through the water

TWEAK
A squeeze with the fingers

TWINE
Form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted"

TWIRL
The act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting"

URUTU

WHELP
Young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf

WHIRL
Confused movement; "he was caught up in a whirl of work"; "a commotion of people fought for the exits"

WHORL
A strand or cluster of hair

WRING
A twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring"

TWIST
Twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates; "wrench a window off its hinges"; "wrench oneself free from somebody's grip"; "a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest"

TRAIL
Evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"

SWIPE
A sweeping stroke or blow

HITCH
The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg

HOUND
Any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears

HYENA
Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion

JUDAS
A one-way peephole in a door

KRAIT
Brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula

LOUSE
Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

PINCH
Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"

PLUCK
The act of pulling and releasing a taut cord

PRICK
The act of puncturing with a small point; "he gave the balloon a small prick"

PROWL
The act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner)

RACER
Slender fast-moving North American snakes

SCREW
A fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head

SHIRK
Avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"

SIDLE
Move sideways

SKULK
Move stealthily; "The lonely man skulks down the main street all day"

SKUNK
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

SLIDE
Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"

SLINK
Walk stealthily; "I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey"

SNAKE
Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

SNEAK
Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

STEAL
A stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)

STRAY
An animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)

SWINE
Stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals