Dog pest
The crossword clue "Dog pest" is answered by FLEA, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FLEA
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLEA answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FLEA
Every other clue in this collection answered by FLEA, most used first.
- Dog bane - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
- Dog biter - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Pooch pest - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of market - used 23 times, most recently in 2021
- Circus performer - used 20 times, most recently in 2019
- Wingless insect - used 20 times, most recently in 2022
- Dog's bane - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Pet pest - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Pet peeve? - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ market - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Dog-biting bug - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Insect. - used 13 times, most recently in 1995
- Leaping insect - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Boxer biter - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Chigger. - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Pest on a pet - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Biting insect - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Bloodsucking insect - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Kind of collar - used 9 times, most recently in 2010
- Word with market or circus - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Dog's irritant - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Canine pest - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Dog dogger - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Dog's annoyance - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Kind of circus - used 7 times, most recently in 1999
- Kind of market or circus - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Tiny biter - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Bug on a dog - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Bug with bounce - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Circus insect - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Dogged little pest - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Jumping insect - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Pound pest - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- "Garfield" dog - ODIE, used 236 times
- "Beetle Bailey" dog - OTTO, used 213 times
- Dorothy's dog - TOTO, used 166 times
- "Peter Pan" dog - NANA, used 141 times
- Buster Brown's dog - TIGE, used 124 times
- "The Thin Man" dog - ASTA, used 105 times
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