Snapping beetle.
The crossword clue "Snapping beetle." is answered by ELATER, a 6-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 1980; first recorded in 1924. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ELATER
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELATER answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 1980; first recorded in 1924. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ELATER
Every other clue in this collection answered by ELATER, most used first.
- Click beetle - used 52 times, most recently in 2020
- Beetle - used 11 times, most recently in 2002
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