CRAB

• ___ Nebula

• --apple

• 'Attack of the ___ Monsters' (1957)

• Alaska King seafood

• Alaskan king?

• Astrological crustacean

• Baltimore seafood specialty

• Beach crawler

• Beach fiddler

• Bellyache

• Bisque crustacean

• Bitch

• Blue, stone or fiddler

• Cake ingredient, perhaps

• Cake ingredient?

• Cake meat

• Callaloo ingredient

• Canadian seafood export

• Cancer, zodiacally

• Cancer's symbol

• Cantankerous sort

• Chesapeake Bay catch

• Chesapeake Bay catch, often

• Chesapeake Bay crawler

• Chesapeake Bay denizen

• Chesapeake Bay resident

• Chesapeake catch

• Chesapeake crustacean

• Chesapeake specialty

• Cioppino ingredient

• Clawed crawler

• Clawed crustacean

• Club, slangily*

• Common crustacean

• Complain

• Complain, needlessly

• Complainer, slangily

• Constant complainer

• Constant critic

• Cracked seafood

• Cranky character

• Cranky crustacean?

• Cranky type

• Crawling crustacean

• Creature known for walking sideways

• Creature that sidles

• Creature the Chesapeake Bay is known for

• Creature with a sideways gait

• Crosspatch

• Crotchety sort

• Crustacean with a carapace

• Crustacean with edible legs

• Curmudgeon

• Curmudgeonly sort

• Decapod crustacean

• Disagreeable one

• Disagreeable sort

• Do nothing but complain

• Dungeness delicacy

• Dungeness or blue

• Dungeness or Hermit

• Dungeness, for example

• Dungeness, for one

• Fiddler

• Fiddler for one

• Fiddler in the sand

• Fiddler on the beach, e.g.

• Fiddler on the beach?

• Fiddler on the reef

• Fiddler or hermit

• Fiddler, e.g.

• Fiddler, for example, turned a line of music clockwise (4)

• Find fault

• Fourth sign of the zodiac's symbol

• Gripe

• Grouch

• Grouchy guy

• Grouchy Marylander?

• Grouchy one

• Grouchy person

• Grouchy sort

• Grumble

• Grumble or grouse

• Grump

• Grumpy guy

• Grumpy old man

• Grumpy one

• Grumpy person

• Grumpy sort

• Hermit ___

• Hermit ___ (small crustacean)

• Hermit crustacean

• Hermit for one

• Hermit or Dungeness

• Hermit or horseshoe

• Hermit or horseshoe, e.g.

• Hermit or king

• Hermit, e.g.

• Horseshoe ___

• Horseshoe of the sea.

• Horseshoe or fiddler

• Horseshoe, for one

• Ill-tempered individual

• Ill-tempered one

• Imperial dish?

• Irritable sort

• It may be a hermit or a fiddler

• It may be cracked

• Jimmy Buffett's dinner?

• Kind of cake

• Kind of cake on menus

• Kind of cake popular in Maryland

• King of the sea?

• King or Dungeness

• King or fiddler

• Kvetch

• Kvetching sort

• Leggy crustacean

• Leggy sea creature

• Lion twins link

• Lobster kin

• Lobster relative

• Louie meat

• Make a lot of leeway

• Malcontent

• Marine hermit

• Maryland cake ingredient

• Maryland delicacy

• Maryland seafood

• Maryland seafood specialty

• Maryland specialty

• Master-tailor, e.g.

• Move sideways

• Mr. Wilson, for one

• Nebula in Taurus

• Ocean resident

• Old grouch

• One who complains, complains, complains

• Ornery sort

• Ornery type

• Oscar the Grouch, for one

• Part of a seafood platter, perhaps

• Quarrelsome one

• Red Lobster entr

• Reggae record label

• Salad meat

• San Francisco treat

• Scrooge or Grumpy

• Scrooge's sign?

• Scuttling crustacean

• Sea creature that moves sideways

• Sea creature that sidles

• Sea hermit

• Seafood delicacy

• Seafood often imitated

• Seafood option

• Seafood selection

• Seafood serving

• Seafood sometimes imitated

• Seafood staple

• Seafood-salad tidbit

• Seashore scavenger

• Seashore sidler

• Seek out fiddlers?

• Shellfish

• Shore catch

• Shore dinner staple

• Shore thing

• Shore-dinner item

• Sidestepper?

• Sidle

• Soft-shell seafood

• Sour

• Sourpuss

• Sourpuss or seafood

• Squawker

• Surf and Turf legs

• Surly sort

• Taurus : Bull :: Cancer : ___

• Testy sort

• The Deadliest Catch catch

• This may have a hard or soft shell

• Twins follower

• Twins-Lion go-between

• Type of cake

• Wet blanket

• Word that unites this puzzle's theme entries

• Word with apple or grass

• Word with grass or apple

• Zodiac animal

• Zodiac crawler

• Zodiac creature

• Zodiac critter

• Zodiac crustacean

• Zodiac delicacy

• Zodiac scuttler

• Zodiac sign

• Zodiac symbol

• Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers

• A quarrelsome grouch

• Infests the pubic region of the human body

• A stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply