Royal pains

The answer

PESTS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PESTS answer page.

Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PESTS

Every other clue in this collection answered by PESTS, most used first.

• Nuisances - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
• Annoyances - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Annoying ones - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
• Pains in the neck - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Nudniks - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Annoying people - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Exterminator's targets - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Raid targets - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Bothersome ones - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Irritants - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Bothers - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Gnats and brats - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Gnats, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Irksome ones - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Vermin - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• Royal decree - EDICT, used 60 times
• Royal domain - REALM, used 42 times
• Royal crown - TIARA, used 24 times
• Dull pains - ACHES, used 19 times
• ___ and pains - ACHES, used 17 times
• Hunger pains - PANGS, used 17 times

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