Crossclimb · No. 838 · Sunday edition
LinkedIn Crossclimb #838 Answer (Aug 16, 2026)
Top & bottom: The top + bottom rows = Two options at a seafood restaurant: one a type of shellfish, the other a cut of fish. Keep in mind: The first word may be at the bottom.
- Top rung
- Like these blanks, when you're done with them
- Fed through a grinding machine, as wheat
- Gave false information to
- Didn't hit the target
- Made untidy or disheveled, as someone's hair
- Bottom rung
Hint: Solve the middle clues first; neighboring words differ by exactly one letter.
Show Crossclimb #838 answer as text
- The top + bottom rows = Two options at a seafood restaurant: one a type of shellfish, the other a cut of fish. Keep in mind: The first word may be at the bottom. → FILLET
- Like these blanks, when you're done with them → FILLED
- Fed through a grinding machine, as wheat → MILLED
- Gave false information to → MISLED
- Didn't hit the target → MISSED
- Made untidy or disheveled, as someone's hair → MUSSED
- The top + bottom rows = Two options at a seafood restaurant: one a type of shellfish, the other a cut of fish. Keep in mind: The first word may be at the bottom. → MUSSEL
About Crossclimb #838
- Crossclimb #838 is a ladder of 7 6-letter words, each one letter away from the next.
- Listed alphabetically rather than in ladder order, the five middle clues are: "Didn't hit the target"; "Fed through a grinding machine, as wheat"; "Gave false information to"; "Like these blanks, when you're done with them"; "Made untidy or disheveled, as someone's hair".
- The shortest, "Didn't hit the target", runs four words against eight for the longest.
- Two add a qualifier after a comma, and clues like that are usually the fastest to pin down.
- Settle the middle five before touching the top and bottom rungs: those two share one combined clue that opens only once the middle is in ladder order.