Very large insect, with distinctive stripes on part of its thorax Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Very large insect, with distinctive stripes on part of its thorax last seen in Times Specialist Sunday puzzle. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 13 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is GOLIATHBEETLE.

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40 Potential Answers:

RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% GOLIATHBEETLE Very large insect, with distinctive stripes on part of its thorax (13) The Times Specialist Sunday Nov 16, 2025
5% TIGERMOTH Insect with striped wings (9) LA Times Daily Jan 8, 2026
5% MANTIS Large predatory insect (6) The Times Concise Dec 12, 2025
5% STAGBEETLE Insect with distinctive mandibles * (10) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Nov 16, 2025
4% TANG Distinctive flavour (4) Puzzler Backwords Jan 11, 2026
4% TIGER Striped big cat (5) Commuter Jan 9, 2026
4% SOL Sun is very large (3) (3) The Sun Two Speed Jan 8, 2026
4% ALBION Britain draping its leader in part of its coat of arms (6) (6) The Guardian Cryptic Jan 7, 2026
4% ETHOS Distinctive character (5) The Telegraph Plusword Jan 6, 2026
4% LAPSE Run out of large part of church (5) The Times Cryptic Jan 6, 2026

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