Dangerous African fly
The crossword clue "Dangerous African fly" is answered by TSETSE, a 6-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TSETSE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TSETSE answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TSETSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by TSETSE, most used first.
- African fly - used 82 times, most recently in 2025
- Dangerous fly - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Feared fly - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Fly over the equator? - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- African menace - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Fearsome fly - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- African pest - used 17 times, most recently in 2020
- Dreaded fly - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Bloodsucking fly - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
- Fly over Africa? - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Sleeping sickness carrier - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Fly. - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Nagana carrier - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- African bloodsucker - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Deadly fly - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- African insect - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
- African scourge - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Feared African fly - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Fly of Africa - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Safari hazard - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Tropical fly - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Trypanosome transmitter - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Botswanan bloodsucker - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Equatorial pest - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Pestilent fly - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Trypanosome carrier - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
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- African desert - SAHARA, used 67 times
- Fly a plane - AVIATE, used 55 times
- African antelopes - ELANDS, used 36 times
- African antelope - IMPALA, used 34 times
- African expanse - SAHARA, used 33 times
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