| Long-bodied insect with iridescent wings (9) |
The Guardian Quick |
02 Oct 2025 |
| Boringly pass clever insect (9) |
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| Fearsome-sounding insect |
Newsday |
25 May 2025 |
| Large insect often seen over ponds |
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| Speedy aerial insect (9) |
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| Predatory insect |
Mirror Classic |
19 Mar 2025 |
| Hurry past monster insect |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
26 Feb 2025 |
| Spooner's no drink in the pot for this creature? |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Jan 2025 |
| Scary-looking insect with wings |
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| Hovering insect |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Sep 2024 |
| Large insect living near water |
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| Insect that is of grandly different form (9) |
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| Large insect with iridescent wings (9) |
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| Spooner found flagon dry - due to a predatory insect (9) |
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| Insect is tiresome thing just when touring France (9) |
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| Hovering creature |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Mar 2024 |
| Pull just holding head of fragile insect |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Mar 2024 |
| Often blue, long-bodied insect (9) |
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| Winged monster: a predator (9) |
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| Marsh insect |
Thomas Joseph |
10 Feb 2024 |
| Name of a horse on which Basil Fawlty had a flutter (9) |
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| Insect with iridescent wings |
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| Insect to go slowly and then go quickly |
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| Insect known to 26 Down |
Newsday |
19 Oct 2023 |
| Insect in Spooner's large jug, empty |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Sep 2022 |
| Flying insect that makes the longest migration among insects at 17000 km |
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| Insect to keep going a long time? Crafty! |
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| Zipper friction? |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Nov 2021 |
| Continue tediously, knowing it’s a predatory insect |
The Times Cryptic |
07 Oct 2021 |
| Insect crawling on dry flag |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Feb 2021 |
| Mosquito eater |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Nov 2020 |
| Bore just netting female insect |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Nov 2019 |
| Floyd rang about six-footer |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Nov 2018 |
| Hovering insect |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Nov 2018 |
| Pull just holding head of fragile insect |
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| Shrew quick to find insect |
The Times Cryptic |
27 Oct 2016 |
| Airborne animal with a monstrous name |
New York Times |
10 Oct 2016 |
| Airborne animal with a monstrous name |
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| Delicate creature finding Spooner's drinking vessel empty? |
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| Insect in bottle out of water, according to Spooner |
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| Non-stinging insect |
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| Mosquito eater [2000] |
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| Predatory insect |
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| Summer hummer |
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| Puff's pants part? |
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| "Darning needle." |
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