Insect - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 20/11/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Insect.

3 letter answer(s) to insect

ANT
  1. social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
BEE
  1. a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions
  2. any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
BUG
  1. a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
  2. a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
  3. a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
  4. annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
  5. general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
  6. insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
  7. tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?"
FLY
  1. (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
  2. (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked
  3. an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
  4. be dispersed or disseminated; "Rumors and accusations are flying"
  5. cause to fly or float; "fly a kite"
  6. change quickly from one emotional state to another; "fly into a rage"
  7. decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized"
  8. display in the air or cause to float; "fly a kite"; "All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N."
  9. fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
  10. flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
  11. hit a fly
  12. move quickly or suddenly; "He flew about the place"
  13. operate an airplane; "The pilot flew to Cuba"
  14. pass away rapidly; "Time fl

6 letter answer(s) to insect

BEETLE
  1. a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
  2. be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
  3. beat with a beetle
  4. fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
  5. insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
  6. jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"
EARWIG
  1. any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
  2. eavesdrop
NICEST
  1. superlative of " nice".

7 letter answer(s) to insect

CRICKET
  1. a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
  2. leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
  3. play cricket

4 letter answer(s) to insect

FLEA
  1. any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

8 letter answer(s) to insect

HOUSEFLY
  1. common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases

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"A Bug's Life" bug
"Busy" one
"Giant" in "Honey, I Shru
"The Atom ___ Show" (1960
A circus performer?
A mischievous creature sent back, one bringing irritation?
Aardvark morsel
Aardvark's nibble
Aardvark's tidbit
About which the Bible say
Amazon ___
Amazon ___ (aggressive in
Amazon, e.g.
An insect - I wager
An insect from near Wigan
An opening for trainee soldier
Annoy
Annoying electronic sound endlessly made by buzzer
Annual Scripps event
Antenna holder
Aphid milker
Apiphobiac's fear
Army insect
Army member
Army unit?
Atom ___, 1960s cartoon s
Aunt of 1960s TV
Automotive comeback of 19
Bloodsucking insect
Boric acid target
Bother for a boxer
Boxer's problem
BT's first mobile network - one creating a buzz
Bud drinker?
Bug in live telecast
Bug in more ways than one
Bug on the road
Bug out
Builder of cells
Bumbling beast
Burrowing insect
Busy buzzer
Busy insect
Busy one
Busy one?
Busy type
But lots of other insects do this too
Buzzer
Buzzer in spelling competition?
Buzzer in the kitchen, ma
Car sounding like FAB 1?
Carpenter ___
Caste member
Cause of an itch
Cell occupant
Certain colonist
Certain soldier
Chirping insect
Circus participant
Circus performer
Circus performer to take flight, we hear?
Clairvoyant
Class competition
Classic Volkswagen
Colonial insect?
Colony crawler
Colony insect
Colony member
Colony worker
Comb maker
Common garden insect
Community competition
Community contest
Community get-together
Competition of sorts
Contest in which the rule
Contest of sorts
Cookout pest
Creature with a tiny wais
Creature with elbowed ant
Crumb carrier
Cupboard crawler
Dog biter
Dog botherer
Dog hounder
Domestic insect?
Dove's helper, in an Aeso
Drink not right for social gathering
Drive nuts
Drone, e.g.
Eavesdrop
Eavesdrop - insect
Eavesdrop to try and understand without introductions
Event where one stands fo
Fair
Fair play
Fancy leaving wife for social worker?
Farm animal
Farm creature
Farm resident
Farm worker
Farm worker?
Feeling in a cathedral, m
Female by meadow in little jumper
Figure on a hill
Fire ___
First of bells echoes buzzer
Flicker food
Flying insect
Food for a doodlebug
Formicary resident
Formicide: ant :: pulicid
Frequent garden visitor
Fresno newspaper
Friendliest
From the outset, Federer’s looking exhausted, and it sucks!
Frontier gathering
Fuzzy flier
Game - "basically baseball on Valium"
Game played by 'flannelled fools'
Garden insect
German car in which soundly to defeat the French
Glitch
Grasshopper's partner in
Grasshopper's teacher, in
Half-finished fleece by a very small jumper
Hard-backed insect
Hard-working insect
Harvester ___
Health hazard in the Commons? Run for it!
High jumper's fine jump needing power
Hill climber
Hill denizen
Hill dweller
Hill resident
Hill worker
Hive dweller
Hive insect
Hive resident
Hobby farm occupant
Honey maker
Honey producer
Honeydew eater
Hopper
Hopping insect
Host seeker
Household pest with a fie
I grew agitated holding a small insect
In audition, run away from pest
Industrious insect
Insect - an insect I shooed from part of roof
Insect for example making Darwin's case anew
Insect found in Quantocks
Insect from another world found by DNA expert
Insect has hair, not its own, on part of head
Insect having an insect’s tail
Insect in a colony
Insect in a pickle? Most delightful!
Insect in pants?
Insect let out another
Insect let out to chase another
Insect mound found during time in France
Insect on leaf, back to front
Insect with a queen
Insect with pincers
Insect, I wager, is metamorphosing
Insect; game
Intelligent dash display
Irritating jumper?
It can get under your ski
It may be in the doghouse
It may be red or black
It's at the end of the li
Kind of bag
Kind of circus performer?
Kind of collar
Kind of colony
Kind of market
Kind of market or circus
Kindest
Kitchen pest
Knowing 15D?
Ladybug, e.g.
Leaf cutter, e.g.
Leaping insect
Like Miss Congeniality
Listen in
Listen in awe, besotted with girl briefly
Listen in with royal receiving a fake shock
Little high-jumping bloodsucker
Little scurrier
Little worker
Lizard's nibble
Locust or beetle
Lover of fur?
Many a worker
Maybe Paul's articulated vehicle
Member of a caste system
Member of a colony
Member of a farm system?
Member of a farm team?
Most agreeable
Most considerate
Most kind
Most pleasant
Most pleasant characters among Venice's tourists
Most pleasant scent I sprayed
Most pleasant, having temperature just above freezing in home
Most pleasing
Mound builder
Mound dweller
Move quickly; insect
Nakedly desires one living in colonies
Nectar collector
Needle
Needling session?
Nest builder
Nocturnal insect
Not a fan of short hill-dweller
Not pro
Not totally against insect
Offspring of a queen
Old Volkswagen
Old-fashioned party
One doing garden work?
One in a long line of wor
One insect let out another
One jumping in a doghouse
One marching in a column
One of "Them!" things
One putting out feelers?
One seeking some anthers
One using a comb
One who's always buzzing
One with a small nest egg
Overhear organ piece that goes to the head
Pantry invader
Pantry pest
Pantry raider
Parasite
Parasite's brief panic about pound
Parasitic insect
Pass muster
PC glitch
Perhaps one of those who backed Holly in game
Perhaps some tests, etc, especially for handling strain
Pesky insect
Pet peeve?
Pet pest
Pet's pest
Pet's tiny tormentor
Petal pusher?
Picnic crasher
Picnic intruder
Picnic nuisance
Picnic pest
Pincered insect
Pitcher plant victim
Popular 1990's revival
Popular car, again
Popular VW
Programming problem
Quaint get-together
Queen of the hill
Queen of the hill?
Queen or drone
Queen who might create qu
Queen's servant, maybe
Queen's subject, possibly
Queen, maybe
Quilters' do
Quilters' klatch
Quilting event
Quilting party
Quilting session
Red army member
Red dye
Reportedly run away from bloodsucker
Retro car
Royal jelly maker
Run away
School competition
Scurry - small car
Second helpings taken from brewer for worker
Secret listening device
Secretly listen in on insect
Secretly monitor creepy-crawly
See 5 Down
Setter settler
Short alert from pager or buzzer
Six-foot worker, maybe
Six-footer among banyan trees
Six-footer?
Six-legged worker
Small buzzer
Small circus performer
Small colonist
Small insect
Small part of a pound?
Soaring sprite upon a biting insect
Social group member
Social insect
Social worker
Social worker?
Soldier ___
Solomon wrote of it "Cons
Something that shouldn't
Sort of market for jumper
Spell-off
Spelling competition
Spelling contest
Spelling event
Spider's prey
Sport
Sport clubs almost threatening to collapse
Sport: strain in playing etc
Stinger
Stinging insect
Stud's home? Scold the crawler
Succeed, as a proposal
Sugar lover
Swarm member
Swatter's target
Symbol of industriousness
Symbol of industry
Tackle box item
Target of some collars
Termite look-alike
Termite's relative
The Bee Gees
Thesaurus abbr.
This worker fellow makes complaint
Tidbit for an aardvark
Tidbit for an echidna
Tiny annoyance
Tiny colonist
Tiny forager
Tiny hill dweller
Tiny insect
Tiny member of a colony
Tiny toiler
Tiny tunneler
Tiny worker
Tip of foliage creeping up jumper
Toiler on a hill
Travel by air
Try to catch calendar girls wearing cycling gear
Tunnel builder
Tunnel traveler
Tunneler
Typhus carrier
Ubiquitous bug
Underground worker
Vermicide : worm :: formi
Waggle dance performer
Waggle dancer
Wax producer
Way to refuse
What might make your setter itch to escape, you tell me?
What you might do with a bug or a creepy-crawly
White fur
Wing it?
Word with black, red or w
Word with red or army
Word with white or worker
Worker in a garden
Worker ___
You wouldn't sit for a sp
Zipper cover
Zipper hider
Zyzzyva, e.g.
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