| Noisy little thing about to trap one hound (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
14 Aug 2025 |
| On a spring night, you may hear this high-pitched insect in a tree |
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| Noisy summer insect |
Newsday |
04 Aug 2025 |
| Chirping creature (6) |
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| A cad in charge initially disturbed the insect (6) |
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| Insect spreading acid in California (6) |
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| Insect that may emerge after 13 years |
Universal |
02 Jul 2025 |
| Large broad insect common in warm regions, the male of which produces a high-pitched drone (6) |
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| Incredibly loud bug |
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| Insect with a distinct song |
Universal |
02 Jun 2025 |
| Chirping Mediterranean insect (6) |
Puzzler |
01 Jun 2025 |
| Large droning insect |
The Times Concise |
17 May 2025 |
| Homopterous chirping insect (6) |
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| In the CIA, no gentleman might be called a "bug" (6) |
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| Chirping summer garden insect (6) |
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| Insect that chirps roughly holds a sort of acid (6) |
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| On a spring night, you may hear this high-pitched insect in a tree |
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| Spies take scoundrel to be a noisy creature (6) |
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| Insect irritated academician leaving Maine |
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| Noisy little thing about to trap one hound (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
09 Feb 2025 |
| Insect that makes a loud chirping sound |
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| US spy agency grabs cad's bug (6) |
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| Insect that returns every 13 or 17 years |
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| Part of a summer swarm |
New York Times |
16 Jan 2025 |
| Sick ardour named summer drummer (6) |
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| Locust |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Jan 2025 |
| Chirpy creature is a rotter in American intelligence (6) |
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| Noisy summer bug |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jan 2025 |
| Agency arresting scoundrel, a chirpy type |
The Times Cryptic |
23 Dec 2024 |
| North American species of this insect can live for thirteen or seventeen years |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
22 Dec 2024 |
| Calcium and acid might make it chirpy (6) |
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| Noisy insect (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Insect that appeared in huge numbers during a 2024 double-brood emergence |
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| Extremely loud insect |
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| Sick ardour heard on summer evenings (6) |
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| Chirping insect |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
17 Oct 2024 |
| Loud insect |
Commuter |
14 Oct 2024 |
| Clicking insect with prominent eyes (6) |
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| Large winged insect that makes a distinctive vibrating sound (6) |
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| Droning insect |
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| Black prince, eg |
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| Insect |
Mirror Quick |
04 Sep 2024 |
| CIA cad ordered bug |
Mirror Cryptic |
04 Sep 2024 |
| Insect, the male of which makes a loud, shrill noise (6) |
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| Locust's cousin |
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| Secret service catch ill mannered person and get stridulating organ grinder (6) |
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| Noisy little thing about to trap one bound (6) |
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| Large droning insect |
The Times Concise |
10 Jul 2024 |
| Insect where the male has drum-like organs which produce a high-pitched drone (6) |
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| Leaders cannot ignore constant annoying drone associated with loud insect |
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| Loud chirping insect (6) |
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| Summer chirping insect |
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| Shrill-sounding insect |
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| Loud insect |
Premier Sunday |
26 May 2024 |
| Noisy insect often heard in the summer |
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| Insect that emits a whistle |
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| Brood X insect |
USA Today |
26 Apr 2024 |
| Noisy little thing about to trap one hound (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
19 Apr 2024 |
| Drumming insect |
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| On a spring night, you may hear this high-pitched insect in a tree |
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| Rogue agents detaining six-footer (6) |
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| Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings (6) |
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| Noisy little thing about to trap one hound (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
27 Feb 2024 |
| Large insect, the male of which produces a high-pitched drone (6) |
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| Insect finding a bounder in the Criminal Intelligence Agency (6) |
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| Large, droning insect common in warm regions (6) |
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| Double drummer or yellow Monday (6) |
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| Shrill insect |
The Times Concise |
04 Feb 2024 |
| Locust's kin |
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| Large insect, the male of which produces a high-pitched whine (6) |
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| Bug used by US intelligence to catch blighter |
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| Chirping Mediterranean insect (6) |
Puzzler |
12 Jan 2024 |
| Loud creepy-crawly |
Mirror Quick |
29 Dec 2023 |
| Spies take scoundrel to be an insect |
Mirror Cryptic |
29 Dec 2023 |
| Loud creepycrawly (6) |
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| Loud creepy-crawly (6) |
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| Droning bug |
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| Insect spies circling dog |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 Nov 2023 |
| Noisy summer insect |
Universal |
17 Oct 2023 |
| Chirpy type taking notes in US intelligence |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
09 Oct 2023 |
| Noisy insect |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Aug 2023 |
| Insect that resembles a locust |
LA Times Daily |
18 Jun 2023 |
| Noisy bug |
LA Times Daily |
15 Jun 2023 |
| Summer bug |
LA Times Daily |
04 Mar 2023 |
| Buzzy insect |
Premier Sunday |
26 Feb 2023 |
| Noisy insect |
LA Times Daily |
15 Jan 2023 |
| Shrill insect |
USA Today |
08 Jan 2023 |
| Noisy insect |
Newsday |
27 Nov 2022 |
| Loud insect |
USA Today |
15 Oct 2022 |
| Buzzing insect |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 Jul 2022 |
| Insect with drum-like organs that produce a high-pitched drone |
The Guardian Quick |
18 Jun 2022 |
| Insect with a 17-year life cycle |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jun 2022 |
| Scoundrel breaking American spies' bug |
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| Insect about to bite one scoundrel |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 May 2022 |
| Bug rogue planted in American agency |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 May 2022 |
| Six-legged buzzer |
Newsday |
11 Mar 2022 |
| Noisy insect |
Irish Times Simplex |
15 Feb 2022 |
| Scoundrel entering spies insect |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Feb 2022 |
| Summer noisemaker |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Feb 2022 |
| Insect whose buzz can reach 106.7 decibels |
Universal |
29 Jan 2022 |
| Shrill insect |
The Times Concise |
27 Dec 2021 |
| Brood X insect |
Universal |
17 Dec 2021 |
| Dishonourable chap recruited by spies for bug |
The Telegraph Toughie |
15 Dec 2021 |
| Military supremo put on poster with a chirpy type |
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| Detectives carrying around a bug |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Nov 2021 |
| Noisy insect |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Sep 2021 |
| Brood X insect |
USA Today |
12 Aug 2021 |
| Noisy summer bug |
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| Insect that may live for 17 years |
The Washington Post |
02 Aug 2021 |
| Insect that may live for 17 years |
LA Times Daily |
02 Aug 2021 |
| Noisy insect |
Irish Times Simplex |
27 Jul 2021 |
| Summer buzzer |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Jun 2021 |
| Six-foot individual -- rotter -- engaged by spies |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Jun 2021 |
| Tropical insect |
The Guardian Speedy |
23 May 2021 |
| Valeric acid removes liver bug |
Irish Times Crosaire |
06 May 2021 |
| Spies hiding rogue bug |
Irish Times Crosaire |
29 Apr 2021 |
| Noisy insect |
Irish Times Simplex |
23 Apr 2021 |
| Shrill insect |
Newsday |
17 Feb 2021 |
| Loud insect |
The Washington Post |
15 Feb 2021 |
| Loud insect |
LA Times Daily |
15 Feb 2021 |
| Loud insect |
USA Today |
30 Nov 2020 |
| Cyclical buzzer |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Sep 2020 |
| Producer of drone group of spies used to trap villain |
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| Scoundrel in American intelligence finds bug |
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| Scoundrel in American intelligence finds bug |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Jun 2020 |
| Nasty chap that spies must detain or bug |
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| Bug in police department captures assistant commissioner backtracking on answer |
Irish Times Crosaire |
19 May 2020 |
| Scoundrel in American intelligence finds bug |
The Telegraph Toughie |
17 Dec 2019 |
| Noisy insect |
Newsday |
14 Nov 2019 |
| Shrill summer noisemaker |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Oct 2019 |
| Shrill bug |
The Times Concise |
21 Aug 2019 |
| Regular chit chat, deal with the insect |
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| Summer droner |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Jun 2019 |
| Loud summer bug |
Wall Street Journal |
25 May 2019 |
| Bug spies used to trap villain |
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| Creepy-crawly bounder trapped by spies |
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| Spies capture scoundrel with annoying bug |
Irish Times Crosaire |
08 Mar 2019 |
| Flier spies treacherous guy breaking in |
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| Shrill summer buzzer |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Feb 2019 |
| Wild acid in California produced by a noisy, chirpy type |
Irish Times Crosaire |
01 Feb 2019 |
| Noisy summer insect |
LA Times Daily |
08 Jan 2019 |
| Noisy summer insect |
The Washington Post |
08 Jan 2019 |
| Loud summer bug |
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| Noisy summer insect |
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| Shrill summer noisemaker |
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| Shrill summer buzzer |
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| Locust |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 Sep 2018 |
| Scoundrel getting berth in secret service. It's just not cricket? |
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| Cold island, country without an insect |
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| Noisy bug |
The Times Concise |
25 May 2018 |
| Cold island, country without an insect |
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| Noisy summer bug |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Apr 2018 |
| Noisy summer bug |
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| Thoracic adaptation partly identifies insect |
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| Cyril leaves acrylic acid with chirpy, annoying sort |
Irish Times Crosaire |
07 Feb 2018 |
| Noisy summer bug |
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| Chirpy fellow, not a gentleman to be impressed by intelligence |
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| Bug firstly cleared Internet cache and, finally, deleted data |
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| Noisy bug |
Newsday |
26 Mar 2017 |
| Loud summer bug |
Universal |
06 Mar 2017 |
| Loud summer bug |
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| Loud insect |
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| Aphid cousin |
Newsday |
25 Nov 2016 |
| One villain in California is a chirpy type |
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| Chirping insect |
The Guardian Quick |
30 Sep 2016 |
| Federal agency traps scoundrel with bug |
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| Insect that may live for 17 years |
LA Times Daily |
01 Sep 2016 |
| Noisy bug |
LA Times Daily |
05 Aug 2016 |
| Spy agency to confiscate new age design bug |
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| Supreme officer, woman seen as a chirpy type |
The Telegraph Toughie |
12 Apr 2016 |
| Insect starts to chirp: 'I'm cricket, and drummer also!' |
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| Bug detected when spies captured scoundrel |
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| Cyril leaves acrylic acid with chirpy annoying sort |
Irish Times Crosaire |
05 Jan 2016 |
| Noisy bug |
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| Insect that may live for 17 years |
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| Chirpy annoying sort from intelligence agency hides Charlie for retiring US lawyer |
Irish Times Crosaire |
22 Jul 2015 |
| Insect with a 17-year life cycle |
Jonesin |
16 Jul 2015 |
| A lawyer behind military bigwig, chirpy type |
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| Noisy insect |
LA Times Daily |
13 Apr 2015 |
| Bounder in Channel Islands with a jumpy creature |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Jan 2015 |
| Noisy insect |
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| Noisy insect |
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| Insect mistakenly called a 17-year locust |
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| Bug that hibernates for prime numbers of years, helping it avoid predators |
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| 17-year locust |
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| One coming out of its shell? |
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| Shrill insect |
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| Noisy insect |
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| Unhealthy girl some would say is a six-footer? |
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| Loud bug |
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| Shrill insect |
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| Noisy bug |
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| This puzzle's author, for one |
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| Shrill insect |
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| Loud bug |
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| Large, noisy insect |
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| Large, noisy insect |
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| Leafhopper relative |
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| Loud insect |
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| Noisy summer bug |
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| Insect with a 17-year life cycle |
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| U.K. electronic band |
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| 17-year locust, e.g. |
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| Shrill buzzer |
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| Bug with a loud love call |
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| Summer buzzer |
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| Noisy flier |
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| Noisy summer bug |
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| It may emerge after 17 years |
|
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| Noisy summer bug |
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| Shrill flier |
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| Noisy insect |
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| Shrill critter |
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| Harvest fly |
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| Loud buzzer |
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| Summer buzzer |
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| Stridulous insect |
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| Noisy insect |
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| One might live underground for 17 years |
|
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| Brood X insect |
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| One might live underground for 17 years |
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| Bug with a shrill sound |
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| Noisy insect |
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| Shrill insect |
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| Locust |
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| Chirper |
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| Harvest fly |
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| Shrill insect |
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| Noisy insect |
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| Detectives carrying around a bug |
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| Scoundrel entering spies insect |
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| Cyclical thing |
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| Loud buzzer |
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| Buzzing insect |
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| Loud insect |
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| Bug with a loud love call |
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| Summer singer |
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| Locust |
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| Flylike insect |
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| Large insect |
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| Harvest fly. |
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| Harvest fly |
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| Summer insect |
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| Large insect. |
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| Buzzer of the summer night. |
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| Insect with stout body, wide head. |
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| Noisy insect. |
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| Insect. |
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| Locust. |
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| Seventeen-year locust. |
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