Answer: CRAB
CRAB is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 224 times.
Referring Clues:
- Sourpuss
 - Complain
 - Callaloo ingredient
 - Grouch
 - Constant complainer
 - Grumbler
 - Twins follower
 - Disagreeable sort
 - Grumble
 - Horseshoe ___
 - Taurus : Bull :: Cancer : ___
 - Move sideways
 - Shore catch
 - Bellyache
 - Ill-tempered one
 - Beach sidler
 - One who complains, complains, complains
 - Zodiac symbol
 - Squawker
 - Sea creature that moves sideways
 - Kvetching sort
 - Sea creature that sidles
 - Kvetcher
 - Maryland seafood specialty
 - Find fault
 - Fiddler on the reef
 - Seafood option
 - Seafood staple
 - Word that unites this puzzle's theme entries
 - Grump
 - Grumpy old man
 - Grumpy person
 - Red Lobster entrée
 - It may be a hermit or a fiddler
 - Old grouch
 - Grumpy sort
 - Ornery sort
 - Chesapeake Bay catch
 - Fiddler, for one
 - Disagreeable one
 - Astrological crustacean
 - Clawed crustacean
 - Seek out fiddlers?
 - Soft-shell seafood
 - Kvetch
 - Gripe
 - Zodiac animal
 - Cake ingredient?
 - Grouchy person
 - Baltimore seafood specialty
 - Sidle
 - Complainer
 - Dungeness delicacy
 - Scuttling crustacean
 - Bisque crustacean
 - Crawling crustacean
 - "Hermit" crustacean
 - Crustacean with edible legs
 - Seashore scavenger
 - Seafood selection
 - Lobster relative
 - Complainer, slangily
 - Curmudgeonly sort
 - Seafood serving
 - Bellyacher
 - Zodiac creature
 - It may be cracked
 - Seafood-salad tidbit
 - Grouse
 - Curmudgeon
 - ''Alaska King'' seafood
 - Fiddler or hermit
 - Fiddler on the beach, e.g.
 - Maryland specialty
 - King or Dungeness
 - Maryland cake ingredient
 - Zodiac delicacy
 - Word with apple or grass
 - Seafood sometimes imitated
 - Maryland delicacy
 - Chesapeake crustacean
 - Dungeness or hermit
 - Cake ingredient, perhaps
 - Fourth sign of the zodiac's symbol
 - Malcontent
 - Part of a seafood platter, perhaps
 - Type of cake
 - Grouchy sort
 - Grouchy one
 - Ornery type
 - "The Deadliest Catch" catch
 - Grouchy guy
 - Crotchety sort
 - Kind of cake popular in Maryland
 - Clawed crawler
 - Cranky crustacean?
 - Surly sort
 - "Alaska King" seafood
 - King or fiddler
 - Shell fish
 - Fiddler on the reef?
 - Word with "grass" or "apple"
 - Hermit or horseshoe, e.g.
 - Creature that sidles
 - Shore dinner staple
 - Seafood often imitated
 - Irritable sort
 - Beach creature
 - Beach crawler
 - Shore crawler
 - Beach critter
 - ... and another
 - Cranky type
 - ___ Louie salad
 - "Cracked" seafood
 - Crustacean
 - Horseshoe, for one
 - Zodiac crustacean
 - Zodiac sign cancer the
 - One pissing and moaning
 - Maryland food specialty
 - Fiddler, e.g.
 - Fiddler on the beach?
 - "Surf and Turf" legs
 - Seafood salad ingredient
 - Seafood entree
 - Dour one
 - Sea creature with pincers
 - Beach 'hermit
 - Hermit on the beach
 - Hermit or king follower
 - Bisque ingredient
 - Ariel's friend Sebastian, e.g.
 - Lobster cousin
 - Twins follower in astrology
 - California roll ingredient
 - Decapod crustacean
 - Fiddler on the beach
 - One who woke up on the wrong side of the bed, say
 - Dungeness, for one
 - July's Zodiac symbol
 - Sidling sea creature
 - Seafood choice
 - Buy for bisque
 - Nebula named for a crustacean, which can precede the starts of 17-, 25-, 39-, 51- and 64-Across
 - Hermit, for one
 - Sebastian in "The Little Mermaid," e.g.
 - ___ cake
 - Alaskan king ___ (seafood)
 - Essence of a certain cocktail
 - Chesapeake Bay crustacean
 - Fare you can "crack" before eating
 - Nebula animal
 - Sushi selection
 - Seafood restaurant order
 - Chesapeake delicacy
 - Chronic complainer
 - Fiddler
 - Seafood delicacy
 - Shell-shedding creature
 - Ten-legged zodiac animal
 - One in a bad mood
 - "Alaskan king" seafood
 - Maryland crustacean
 - Whine lover?
 - Cranky one
 - Word with grass
 - ... twins, ___, lion ...
 - Scrooge's sign?
 - Horseshoe or hermit
 - Seafood you crack
 - Rowing gaffe
 - Malleted seafood
 - Habitual grump
 - Sideways scuttler
 - Seafood in salads
 - Seafood you mallet
 - Malleted food
 - Dungeness creature
 - Grumpy guy
 - Grumpy crustacean?
 - ___ Nebula, part of the constellation Taurus
 - Horseshoe, e.g.
 - ___bisque
 - Food often served with a mallet
 - One likely to snap
 - Maryland seafood delicacy
 - It's a shore thing
 - Cantankerous sort
 - One walking sideways
 - Sideways-walking crustacean
 - Dungeness ___
 - Bad-tempered person
 - SpongeBob SquarePants' boss, e.g.
 - Hermit or fiddler
 - Complain like a shellfish?
 - Sideways-walking creature
 - Shape of some Maryland decals
 - Crustacean that can pinch
 - ___ sticks (imitation seafood)
 - Grumpy one
 - Coastal scuttler
 - One who's always complaining, complaining, complaining
 - Maryland catch
 - Seafood in poo cha
 - Animal with a distinctive walk
 - Crustacean in some "cakes"
 - What might get you in a pinch?
 - "You cannot teach a ___ to walk straight": Aristophanes
 - Crustacean whose species range in size from .2 inches to 12 feet
 - Singapore chili ___ (seafood dish)
 - Sebastian of "The Little Mermaid," for one
 - ___ Rangoon: seafood-filled appetizer
 - Fiddler ___: creature with asymmetric claws
 - ___ apple
 - Bad-tempered sort
 - July zodiac animal
 - Maryland blue, e.g.
 - Word before "apple" or "cake"
 - Soft-shell ___
 - Sea creature whose name doesn't rhyme with 1-Across, weirdly
 - Side-stepper on a beach
 - Sidling beach creature
 - "Blue" crustacean
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 29, 2025
 - New York Times - October 08, 2025
 - USA Today - September 09, 2025
 - USA Today - August 11, 2025
 - New York Times - June 09, 2025
 - New York Times - May 14, 2025
 - New York Times - May 02, 2025
 - LA Times - April 24, 2025
 - LA Times - April 18, 2025
 - USA Today - February 21, 2025
 - LA Times - November 17, 2024
 - LA Times - September 19, 2024
 - USA Today - June 07, 2024
 - New York Times - May 15, 2024
 - USA Today - February 21, 2024
 - LA Times - February 06, 2024
 - LA Times - September 05, 2023
 - LA Times - July 29, 2023
 - LA Times - July 23, 2023
 - LA Times - July 17, 2023
 
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