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noun • any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales • a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest • a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways verb • play the shark; act with trickery • hunt shark | ||||||||
| 26% | 5 | Eel with a second set of jaws in its throat (!?!) | ||||||
noun • family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked | ||||||||
| 25% | 6 | They give one pause | ||||||
noun • a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence • anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing | ||||||||
Its Jaws Give Pause Crossword Clue
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SHARK which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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SHARK
Updated: October 10, 2023
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