Answer: CLAM
CLAM is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 160 times.
Referring Clues:
- Silent one
 - Symbol of happiness
 - With 15-Across, linguini topping
 - Smacker
 - Hardly a blabbermouth
 - Dollar, in slang
 - Symbol of noncommunication
 - Bisque bit
 - Shut (up)
 - Chowder morsel
 - Steamer, e.g.
 - One who won't tell
 - Secretive sort
 - One who's close-mouthed
 - Soup or sandwich ingredient
 - Buck
 - Littleneck, e.g.
 - Dollar, slangily
 - Silent sort
 - Quahog, e.g.
 - Good secret-keeper
 - Quahog or geoduck
 - Bisque morsel
 - Chowder choice
 - Simoleon
 - Quest after quahogs
 - Shoreline digger's find
 - Mum one
 - Chowder ingredient
 - Chowder bit
 - Stop talking, with "up"
 - Manhattan ___ chowder
 - Dig mollusks
 - Chowder chunk
 - Casino delicacy?
 - Quahog
 - Hardly a big talker
 - Seafood item
 - Uncommunicative one
 - Taciturn one
 - Bit of chowder
 - Chowder mollusk
 - Bisque morsel, perhaps
 - Marine mollusk
 - Epitome of happiness
 - Chowder ingredient, often
 - Happiness standard?
 - Type of chowder
 - Embodiment of happiness?
 - Seafood morsel
 - Symbol of silence
 - Happy bivalve?
 - Thing to be as happy as
 - Symbol of uncommunicativeness
 - Chowder tidbit
 - Bit of dough
 - Be silent, with "up"
 - Bivalve mollusk
 - No blabbermouth
 - Close-mouthed one
 - Cherrystone
 - Coquina
 - Cherrystone, e.g.
 - Kind of dip or diggers
 - Chowder shellfish
 - Dollar, casually
 - Ming, the oldest animal ever discovered (400+ years), was one
 - Paella ingredient
 - Don't talk, with, "up"
 - Smackeroo
 - Paradigm of happiness
 - Symbol of silence
 - Untalkative one
 - Bivalve
 - Untalkative sort
 - One disinclined to talk
 - Quahog, for one
 - One unwilling to talk
 - ___ chowder
 - Shell occupant
 - Happy mollusk
 - Blabber's opposite
 - Dollar, so to speak
 - Tight-lipped sort
 - Shellfish
 - Pearl container
 - Happy as a ___
 - Cherrystone or littleneck, e.g.
 - Certain steamer
 - Cherrystone, for one
 - Paella ingredient, perhaps
 - Chowder type
 - Can be hard-shelled or soft-shelled
 - Chowder favorite
 - "Happy" mollusk
 - Chowder thingie
 - Beach burrower
 - Raw bar offering
 - Certain bivalve
 - Nontalkative one
 - Shelled creature
 - Steamer, for one
 - Paella morsel
 - Place for steamers
 - Cioppino ingredient
 - Mollusk
 - Tight-lipped one
 - "On the half shell" bite
 - Metaphor for reticence
 - Pasta alle vongole ingredient
 - Simolean
 - Tasty sea creature
 - Littleneck or cherrystone
 - Burrowing sea mollusk
 - Refuse to talk, with "up"
 - One who's tight-lipped
 - Mollusk in a red or white linguine sauce
 - Chowder flavor
 - Happpy one
 - Quiet sort, so to speak
 - Epitome of quiet
 - Razor ___
 - Certain seafood
 - Digger's find
 - Linguine seafood sauce morsel
 - One keeping a secret, metaphorically
 - Person unlikely to sing
 - Tough person to get information from
 - Morsel in a "casino" dish
 - Lead-in to bake or shell
 - Shellfish in bisque
 - Silent type
 - Littleneck mollusk
 - Shellfish at a bake
 - Morsel in a linguine sauce
 - Geoduck, e.g.
 - End of a "happy" simile
 - Zip it (up)
 - New England chowder mollusk
 - Dig for quahogs, say
 - Half-shell serving
 - Animal metaphor for a quiet person
 - Not talk, with "up"
 - Mollusk in jaecheop-guk
 - ___ up (refuse to talk)
 - Sort who refuses to answer
 - Chowder head?
 - Zip it, with "up"
 - New England ___ chowder
 - Mollusk that may have a soft shell
 - Happy bivalve
 - ___bake (seafood feast with Wampanoag origins)
 - $1 bill, in slang
 - Go silent, with "up"
 - Seafood in a shell
 - Dollar, informally
 - Oyster relative
 - Jogaetang mollusk
 - One might be cooked "casino"-style
 - Chowder protein
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - November 03, 2025
 - LA Times - October 07, 2025
 - LA Times - September 11, 2025
 - New York Times - July 24, 2025
 - New York Times - July 19, 2025
 - New York Times - March 30, 2025
 - USA Today - March 12, 2025
 - New York Times - October 23, 2024
 - USA Today - October 07, 2024
 - New York Times - October 02, 2024
 - LA Times - July 01, 2024
 - New York Times - May 05, 2024
 - New York Times - April 07, 2024
 - New York Times - February 07, 2024
 - New York Times - January 23, 2024
 - USA Today - January 22, 2024
 - LA Times - November 22, 2023
 - USA Today - October 25, 2023
 - New York Times - October 18, 2023
 - LA Times - September 14, 2023
 
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