Insect with pincers
The crossword clue "Insect with pincers" is answered by EARWIG, a 6-letter entry. Used 19 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EARWIG
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EARWIG answer page.
Used 19 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EARWIG
Every other clue in this collection answered by EARWIG, most used first.
- Nocturnal insect - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
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