Snail
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

PEST
A persistently annoying person

CLAM
Flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

CRAB
A stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"

SLUG
(boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose"

5 letters

DRONE
Stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

PRAWN
Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible

SNAIL
Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

WHELK
Large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell

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DAWDLE
Waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!"

LIMPET
Any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas

MUSSEL
Marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.

OYSTER
Edible body of any of numerous oysters

QUAHOG
Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes

SHRIMP
Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible

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CRAWDAD
Small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster

DAWDLER
Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

GOOFOFF

LAGGARD
Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

LIEABED

LOBSTER
Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae

MOLLUSC
Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

PLODDER
Someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"

SCALLOP
Edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

STEAMER
An edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe

CREEPER
Any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet

8 letters

ESCARGOT
Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

SLOWPOKE
Someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"

SLUGGARD
An idle slothful person

CHORDATA
Comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord

CRAWFISH
Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"

CRAYFISH
Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters

LINGERER
Someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place

LOITERER
Someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place

SLOWGOER

SLOWFOOT

TORTOISE
Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica

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BLUEPOINT
Small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island

CHILOPODA
Arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes

GASTROPOD
A class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes

SLOWCOACH
Someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"

GOLDBRICK
Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless

LANGOUSTE
Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters

SHELLFISH
Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

SLOWBELLY

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COQUILLAGE

ECTOPROCTA
Coextensive with or a subphylum of Bryozoa

ENTOPROCTA
Sometimes considered a subphylum of Bryozoa

NEMERTINEA

PERIWINKLE
Commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers

PHORONIDEA
Small phylum of wormlike marine animals

SLEEPYHEAD
A sleepy person

11 letters

ECHIUROIDEA

FOOTDRAGGER

12 letters

JAPANESECRAB
Crabmeat usually canned; from Japan

13 letters

DUNGENESSCRAB
Small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America

SOFTSHELLCRAB

STICKINTHEMUD

14 letters

LITTLENECKCLAM
A young quahog

MONOPLACOPHORA

PROCRASTINATOR
Someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness)

16 letters

GASTROPODMOLLUSC