Insect
Crossword Clue & Answers

11 April 2021
Last seen in: The Mirror Classic
We found 44 answers for the crossword clue 'Insect', the most recent of which was seen in the The Mirror Classic.
This clue looks to be a standard clue as in it's a NON-CRYPTIC crossword based on the publications in which we have recently seen it.
We have given Insect a popularity rating of 'Very Common' because it has featured in a numerous crossword publications and has multiple answers.
As well as being a clue we've also seen Insect as an answer itself some 202 times.
Insect is a single word clue made up of 6 letters.
We most recently saw this clue in 'The Mirror Classic' on Saturday, 03 April 2021 with the answer being ANT, we also found ANT to be the most popular answer for this clue.
We've seen this clue in the following publications:
- The Mirror Classic - 3 Apr 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 25 Mar 2021
- The Mirror Classic - 25 Mar 2021
- The Mirror Classic - 20 Mar 2021
- The Mirror Classic - 18 Mar 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 10 Mar 2021
- Irish Independent - Simple - 3 Mar 2021
- Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 24 Feb 2021
- The Mirror Classic - 22 Feb 2021
- The Mirror Classic - 21 Feb 2021
Definitions and usage
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- Small air-breathing arthropod
- A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
Anagrams
We found 3 anagrams for the word 'Insect'.
- encist
- incest Sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)
- scient
Crossword Answers
2 Letters
SR
The unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
3 Letters
ANT
Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
BEE
Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
BUG
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
FLY
(baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
4 Letters
FLEA
Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
GNAT
Any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies
MOTH
Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae
WASP
Social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting
WORM
A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
5 Letters
APHID
Any of various small plant-sucking insects
APHIS
Type genus of the Aphididae: injurious to fruit trees and vegetables
IMAGO
An adult insect produced after metamorphosis
LOUSE
Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds
MIDGE
Minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water
6 Letters
BEDBUG
Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood
BEETLE
Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
CICADA
Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone
EARWIG
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
HORNET
Large stinging paper wasp
LOCUST
Migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae
MANTIS
Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer
MAYFLY
Slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
NICEST
7 Letters
CRICKET
A game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
FIREFLY
Tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots
HEXAPOD
An animal having six feet
TERMITE
Whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood
8 Letters
CRANEFLY
Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite
CREATURE
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement
DIRTBALL
A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
HORSEFLY
Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals
LADYBIRD
Small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
MOSQUITO
Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals
9 Letters
ARTHROPOD
Invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
CENTIPEDE
Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors
COCKROACH
Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests
DRAGONFLY
Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
TSETSEFLY
Bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
10 Letters
STAGBEETLE
A kind of lamellicorn beetle; the male has branched mandibles resembling antlers
11 Letters
GRASSHOPPER
Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
12 Letters
CREEPYCRAWLY
INVERTEBRATE
Any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
13 Letters
PRAYINGMANTIS
The common mantis
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