Like fish that must be eaten carefully (4)

I believe the answer is:

bony

(Other definitions for bony that I've seen before include "Osseous" , "[GAUNT] ?" , "Scrawny" , "With skeleton showing through" , "Angular" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.

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