Caterpillar or grub
The crossword clue "Caterpillar or grub" is answered by LARVA, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1954. 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
LARVA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LARVA answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LARVA
Every other clue in this collection answered by LARVA, most used first.
- Insect stage - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Caterpillar, for one - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Immature insect - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Baby bug - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Caterpillar, e.g. - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Grub - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Tadpole, e.g. - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Stage between egg and pupa - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Grub, e.g. - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Cocoon contents - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Cocoon creator - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Cocoon dweller - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Metamorphosis stage - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Caterpillar competitor - DEERE, used 33 times
- Caterpillar rival - DEERE, used 31 times
- Caterpillar hairs - SETAE, used 18 times
- "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" author Eric - CARLE, used 9 times
- Caterpillar bristles - SETAE, used 6 times
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