Stage between egg and pupa
The crossword clue "Stage between egg and pupa" is answered by LARVA, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021. 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
LARVA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LARVA answer page.
Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021. It appears in 6 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
- Caterpillar or grub - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- 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.
- Up and about - ASTIR, used 274 times
- Egg-shaped - OVATE, used 228 times
- Stage direction - ENTER, used 165 times
- Stage whisper - ASIDE, used 129 times
- On the up and up - LEGIT, used 124 times
- Egg-shaped - OVOID, used 123 times
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