The Clue
Chronic complainer (4 letter answer)
The Answer
CRAB
Tags
Notes
The answer CRAB is seen frequently, appearing about once every 100 puzzles.
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Complainer
Crustacean
Curmudgeon
A decapod
Disagreeable one
Grouch
A hermit is one
Horseshoe ___
Kvetch
Sourpuss
Be a grouch
Beach sidler
Callaloo ingredient
Cancer, zodiacally
Cancer's symbol
Creature that sidles
Disagreeable sort
Fiddler on the reef
Grass or apple
Hermit or fiddler
Ill-tempered one
Jimmy, e.g.
King or hermit
Master-tailor
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Scrooge's sign?
Shore catch
Zodiac sign
Zodiac symbol
Hermit living in a shell
Item on a seafood menu
July zodiac figure
Kind of apple or grass
Kind of grass or apple
Kind of grass or spider
Sea creature that sidles
Shore-dinner item
Shore dinner staple
Taurus : Bull :: Cancer : ___
One who complains, complains, complains
Definition
CRAB as a noun:
1. decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
2. (crab, crabby person) = a quarrelsome grouch
3. (Cancer, Crab) = (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
4. (Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crab) = the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22
5. (crab, crabmeat) = the edible flesh of any of various crabs
6. (crab louse, pubic louse, crab, Phthirius pubis) = infests the pubic region of the human body
7. a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"
CRAB as a verb:
1. direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
2. scurry sideways like a crab
3. fish for crab
4. (gripe, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler) = complain; "What was he hollering about?"