Insect with a 17-year life cycle
The crossword clue "Insect with a 17-year life cycle" is answered by CICADA, a 6-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
CICADA
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CICADA answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CICADA
Every other clue in this collection answered by CICADA, most used first.
- Noisy insect - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Locust - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Loud insect - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Harvest fly - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Noisy bug - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Shrill insect - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
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