Nocturnal insect
The crossword clue "Nocturnal insect" is answered by EARWIG, a 6-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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EARWIG
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EARWIG answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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- Insect with pincers - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
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