| 20 answers for: Like mackerel or salmon |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| OILY | Like mackerel or salmon |
| PLURAL | Like "mackerel" or "salmon," at times |
| SHINER | A mackerel or any small silvery fish with glittering scales; a polisher; or, slang for a rainbow, a black eye or a bright coin, such as a sovereign (6) |
| TABBY | Watered silk taffeta, originally from Baghdad; a cat with a brindled, mackerel or streaked coat, evocative of this; a gossip; a grey-brown mottled moth; or, coquina-like concrete (5) |
| HOLY | Like mackerel, really good (4) |
| SCALIER | More like mackerel |
| SMOKER | A curer of bacon, cheese, duck or salmon; a user of tobacco; a train carriage or men-only gathering for inhaling or puffing said leaf; a vent in the ocean's floor; or, in apiculture, a beekeeper's pip |
| CRUMBS | Word for the fragments of bread recalled in an old-school euphemism akin to Christ, Christmas, god, gracious, heavens, heck, holy mackerel or lord; or, morsels of information (6) |
| FISH | Mackerel or bass |
| WAHOO | Winged elm, large mackerel or exuberant cry |
| MOUSSE | Bubbly layer on the top of a glass of champagne; or, a light, cream-based sweet or savoury dish flavoured with chocolate, lemon or salmon (6) |
| SHRIMP | A crevette; its prawn- or salmon-like hue; or, akin to such a small crustacean, a puny person (6) |
| SMOKED | Like some hams or salmon |
| HORSERADISH | Root related to wasabi eaten with roast beef, smoked mackerel or beetroot (11) |
| POACH | Word meaning simmer or steal, as in an egg, rabbit or salmon, e.g. (5) |
| RIVER | Snake or Salmon |
| PINK | Scallop or salmon? (4) |
| HEN | A female lobster, crab or salmon (3) |
| STEAK | Cut of beef or salmon |
| DORSAL | Kind of fin found in cod or salmon |
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