Pester
The crossword clue "Pester" is answered by BUG, a 3-letter entry. Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BUG
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BUG answer page.
Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for BUG
Every other clue in this collection answered by BUG, most used first.
- Annoy - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Glitch - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Insect - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Program error - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Software glitch - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Wiretap - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Listening device - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Programming error - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Computer program glitch - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Programmer's problem - used 6 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.
- Pester - NAG, used 199 times
- Pester for payment - DUN, used 29 times
- Pester persistently - NAG, used 14 times
- Pester incessantly - NAG, used 12 times
- Pester - IRK, used 8 times
- Pester constantly - NAG, used 8 times
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