Hill-building insects
The crossword clue "Hill-building insects" is answered by ANTS, a 4-letter entry. Used 22 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ANTS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANTS answer page.
Used 22 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ANTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by ANTS, most used first.
- Picnic pests - used 146 times, most recently in 2026
- Picnic invaders - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
- Hill dwellers - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Pantry pests - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Pismires - used 51 times, most recently in 2024
- Crumb carriers - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Colony members - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
- Insects - used 38 times, most recently in 1997
- Hill builders - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Aardvark's meal - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Kitchen pests - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Industrious insects - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Social insects - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Picnic spoilers - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Colony insects - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Picnic crashers - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Formicary residents - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Leaf cutters. - used 22 times, most recently in 2004
- Tiny colonists - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Flat-topped hill - MESA, used 108 times
- Building wings - ELLS, used 106 times
- Building beam - IBAR, used 63 times
- Sand hill - DUNE, used 61 times
- Building additions - ELLS, used 58 times
- Farm building - SILO, used 53 times
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