Fly or flea
The crossword clue "Fly or flea" is answered by INSECT, a 6-letter entry. Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
INSECT
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the INSECT answer page.
Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for INSECT
Every other clue in this collection answered by INSECT, most used first.
- Bug - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Bee or beetle - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Fly, e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Creepy-crawly - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Fly - AVIATE, used 115 times
- African fly - TSETSE, used 82 times
- Dangerous fly - TSETSE, used 61 times
- Fly a plane - AVIATE, used 55 times
- Feared fly - TSETSE, used 33 times
- Fly over the equator? - TSETSE, used 20 times
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