Banned bug bane
The crossword clue "Banned bug bane" is answered by DDT, a 3-letter entry. Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DDT
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DDT answer page.
Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DDT
Every other clue in this collection answered by DDT, most used first.
- Banned pesticide - used 119 times, most recently in 2026
- Banned insecticide - used 118 times, most recently in 2026
- Banned bug killer - used 44 times, most recently in 2023
- Banned bug spray - used 41 times, most recently in 2021
- Banned spray - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
- Insecticide. - used 28 times, most recently in 1977
- "Silent Spring" subject - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- "Silent Spring" subj. - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Outlawed spray - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
- "Silent Spring" topic - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Target of a 1972 ban - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Banned insecticide, for short - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Banned insecticide's letters - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- EPA-banned pesticide - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- "Silent Spring" pesticide - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Outlawed pesticide - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- "Silent Spring" killer - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- The EPA banned it in 1972 - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Have a bug - AIL, used 201 times
- Winter bug - FLU, used 129 times
- Bug - IRK, used 80 times
- "The Gold Bug" author - POE, used 56 times
- Phone bug - TAP, used 45 times
- June bug - DOR, used 25 times
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