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Cryptic Conchology and Cloyster Conundrums is a hard crossword puzzle with 20 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Cryptic Conchology and Cloyster Conundrums
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- 1. Science of water flow, key to Cloyster’s underwater agility
- 2. General term including bivalves and their ilk
- 3. Process hardening Cloyster’s exoskeleton
- 6. One who shatters established beliefs, like breaking Cloyster’s shell
- 8. Helical bacterium shape metaphorically twisting defenses
- 12. Directional movement in response to light, a subtle clue
- 13. State of perfect peace, contrasting Cloyster’s fierce nature
- 16. Vague or clouded, opposite of Cloyster’s sharply defined structure
- 17. Imagined weapon blending ‘glacier’ and ‘cleaver’, shell breaker metaphor
- 19. Muscle type closing a bivalve shell
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- 4. Natural light emission in marine creatures, not typical for Cloyster
- 5. Small openings in bivalves, portals for water filtration
- 7. Outer organic layer guarding mollusk shells
- 9. Act of enveloping, reflecting Cloyster's protective shell
- 10. Strategic positioning, akin to Cloyster's battle tactics
- 11. Mollusk class distinct from bivalvia, like squid vs Cloyster
- 14. Saw-tooth edge pattern, hinting at Cloyster’s jagged shell
- 15. Class of crustaceans with bivalve-like shells, distant cousins
- 18. Parasitic flatworms, often third-party players in marine life
- 20. Phylum including Cloyster’s biological lineage
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