| Tightly packed fish |
USA Today |
02 Mar 2026 |
| Hide-and-seek game awkward in a dress (8) |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Dec 2025 |
| Fishes tightly packed in cans |
Newsday |
03 Nov 2025 |
| Fish appearing odd in a dress |
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| Metaphor for a cramped subway car |
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| Aridness (anag)(8) |
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| Playground game similar to hide-and-seek |
LA Times Daily |
14 Mar 2025 |
| Popular tinned fish (8) |
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| Fish in some conservas |
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| Salami and radicchio for starters, then eats fish (8) |
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| Small fish, often sold in cans (Picture D) |
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| Fish and game |
The Times Sunday Cryptic |
25 Aug 2024 |
| That's fishy! They always seem to be canned! (8) |
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| Young pilchards; party game |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
23 Jul 2024 |
| South African redhead eats tinned fish (8) |
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| Young pilchards, especially when cured, preserved, and packed as food (8) |
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| Small canned fish (8) |
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| To cut disease, eat fish (8) |
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| Cramped fish |
Commuter |
07 Mar 2024 |
| Fish thought to be named after a region in Italy |
New York Times |
06 Mar 2024 |
| Packed in as a simile they're small and fishy (8) |
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| Aridness (anag) (8) |
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| Fish or game? |
The Times Cryptic |
04 May 2022 |
| Small edible fish |
The Guardian Quick |
08 Jan 2022 |
| 2 swimmers |
The Guardian Cryptic |
16 Dec 2021 |
| 2 swimmers |
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| Sister taking in area has a meal with group of swimmers |
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| On board ship, a diner ordered game |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Mar 2020 |
| Rush-hour commuters, figuratively |
USA Today |
24 Nov 2019 |
| Fish, ridiculous in a dress! |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Sep 2019 |
| Rush hour metaphor |
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| Rush hour metaphor |
LA Times Daily |
10 Aug 2019 |
| A writer from foundation has feast in ship with swimmers |
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| Rush hour metaphor |
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| Ridiculous, as diners get packed in like this |
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| Game fish |
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| Artist returns to eat in ship with swimmers |
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| Commuting metaphor |
LA Times Daily |
15 Oct 2016 |
| Commuting metaphor |
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| Small fish, usually canned |
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| Canned fish |
Universal |
12 May 2015 |
| Hide-and-seek variant |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Apr 2015 |
| Fish cooked as diners required |
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| Canned fish |
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| Short of time, celebrity eats |
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| Fish in a can |
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| Tightly packed fish |
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| They get canned |
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| Fish in cans |
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| Fish in a crowded-subway metaphor |
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| Fish in a crowded-subway metaphor |
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| Canned fish |
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| Tom treat |
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| Ones closely packed in |
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| Popular fish |
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| Tightly packed fish |
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| Pilchards |
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| Tightly packed fish |
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| Fish or game? |
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| Portuguese exports |
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| Ones sitting tight? |
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| Pack-'em-in children's game |
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| Tiny fishes |
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| Young pilchards |
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| Pilchards |
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| Herrings' kin |
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| Portuguese export |
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| "Noises Off" prop |
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| Portuguese exports |
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| Seafood |
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| Herringlike fish |
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| Party game |
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| Variety of hide-and-go-seek |
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| Rush-hour crowds, figuratively |
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| Togetherness symbol |
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| Young herrings. |
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| Fishes. |
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| The makings of a quick meal. |
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| Young herring. |
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| Fish dish. |
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| Little fishes. |
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| Smorgasbord fare. |
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| Product of California. |
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