The Clue
Whitebait (5 letter answer)
The Answer
SMELT
Tags
Notes
The answer SMELT is seen frequently, appearing about once every 170 puzzles.
Related Clues
Fuse
Refine
Silversides
Sparling
Food fish
Frying fish
Fuse ores
Offputting fish?
Process, as ore
Refine metal
Refine, as metal
Refine ore
Refine, as ore
Remove impurities from
Silvery fish
Small fish
Take the lead from?
Troutlike fish
Upriver spawner
Get the lead out?
Great Lakes fish
Put through a furnace
Silvery food fish
Silvery little fish
Small food fish
Small, silvery fish
Get the lead out, in a way
Got a whiff of, old-style
Got wind of, old-style
Sensed odors, old-style
Definition
SMELT as a noun:
1. small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
2. small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
SMELT as a verb:
1. extract (metals) by heating
SMELL as a verb:
1. inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
2. emit an odor; "The soup smells good"
3. smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells"