Answer: PEST
PEST is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 231 times.
Referring Clues:
- Buzzy one
- Plague
- Irk-aholic?
- Annoyance
- Nuisance
- Teaser
- Botherer
- Nudnik
- Buttinsky
- Hanger-on, maybe
- Adamant ant?
- A real pain
- Pain in the neck
- Termite, e.g.
- Noodge
- Fly, e.g.
- Mosquito, e.g.
- Cutworm, e.g.
- Bother
- 43-Down, e.g.
- Dennis, to Mr. Wilson
- Ant, maybe
- Exterminator's target
- D-Con target
- Cockroach or rat
- Little brother, maybe
- Buttinsky, e.g.
- Mole, to a gardener
- Persistent annoyer
- Irritant
- Annoyer
- Slug, say
- Younger brother, say
- Raid victim
- Roach or rat
- Mole, e.g.
- Starling, e.g.
- Orkin victim
- Annoying type
- Real pill
- Irksome insect
- Raid target
- Dee Dee, to Dexter on "Dexter's Laboratory"
- Unwelcome greenhouse guest
- Aphid, to a gardener
- Exterminator's quarry
- Babysitter's bane
- Mouse, for one
- Thorn
- Exterminator's assignment
- Dennis the Menace, to Mr. Wilson
- Royal pain
- Exterminator's victim
- Ant at a picnic, e.g.
- Heckler, e.g.
- Noodge or nudnik
- Crop-dusting target
- Kid brother, at times
- With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues?
- Telemarketer, to many
- Fly, for example
- Gnat, for example
- It's across the Danube from Buda
- Irksome person
- Annoying one
- Slug, to a gardener
- Sauce whose name is Italian for "pounded"
- Housefly, for example
- Nudge
- Cockroach or termite
- Gnat, for one
- Brat
- Gnat or rat
- Bothersome kid
- Pain, so to speak
- 10 Across or 49 Across
- Flea, e.g.
- Bothersome one
- Genuine nuisance
- Irksome individual
- Nettlesome one
- Gadfly
- Irksome fellow
- Vexation
- Yapping dog, e.g.
- Kid brother, stereotypically
- Mixed-up PETS?
- Pain in the rear
- Kind of control
- Black Flag target
- Little brother or spammer, to some
- Pain of a sort
- Bothersome type
- Brat or bug, e.g.
- Pain in the you-know-what, e.g.
- Pain in the butt
- Bug bomb target
- Thorn in one's side
- Dennis the Menace, for one
- Vexatious one
- Annoying person
- Irksome type
- Bug you want to swat
- Source of exasperation
- Mosquito or mole, e.g.
- Aphid, to a fruit tree
- Fly, perhaps
- 17-Across in the neck
- Irksome one
- Zappers casualty
- Unwelcome guest
- Gnat or brat
- Mite, moth or mole
- Irritating sort
- ___ control (Orkin's business)
- Pain in the ass
- Tick, e.g.
- Irksome sort
- One who 26-Across
- Orkin target
- Constant interrupter
- Source of annoyance
- Bugging bug
- Gardening column subject
- Bothersome person
- See 59-Across
- 16-Across, e.g.
- Troublesome person
- ___ control
- Bothersome insect
- Crop threat
- Little brother, to an older sibling, say
- Pantry ant, e.g.
- Recurring pain?
- Slug, e.g.
- Insecticide victim
- Orkin agent's quarry
- Troublesome insect
- Mosquito or gnat
- Crop-invading insect
- Crop invading insect
- Irking insect
- Injurious plant
- Mole, to a suburbanite
- Annoying person or bug
- Unwanted visitor
- Steady annoyance
- Garden headache
- Fumigation target
- Fly in the face of someone?
- Nag, e.g.
- Under-one's-skin type
- Annoying creature
- Irritating one
- Unwelcome garden visitor
- Hanger-on
- Vexatious sort
- Garden interloper
- Real pain
- Mole, to suburbanites
- Trying type
- Mosquito, to us
- Cockroach, e.g.
- Mosquito, gnat or fly
- It gets on one's nerves
- Annoying critter
- Pique-provoking person
- Gypsy moth, e.g.
- Thing getting on one's nerves
- Fruit fly or gnat
- Rat or roach
- Obnoxious one
- Fly or gnat, often
- 4-Down victim, e.g.
- Unrelenting annoyance
- Pain in the you-know-what
- Bug bomb victim
- Yappy dog, e.g.
- Black Flag or d-CON target
- Sitter's challenge
- Weevil, for one
- Little sibling, often
- One getting shooed
- Mole or mosquito
- Bedbug, e.g.
- Thing on your nerves
- Bothersome annoyance
- Termite or gnat
- Fly
- Bug or brat
- Ant, to a picnicker
- Flea or fly
- Buttonholer
- Persistent inconvenience
- 35-Across, to suburbanites
- Little noodge
- 38-Down, e.g.
- Little brother, stereotypically
- Roach or termite
- Arborist's concern
- Boll weevil, to a cotton farmer
- One told to leave, maybe
- Ant or mosquito
- Little sibling, perhaps
- Obnoxious person
- Gnat or brat, for example
- Boll weevil, for one
- Flea or tick
- Apt rhyme for "infest"
- Bothersome sort
- *Cat or goldfish
- Destructive insect
- Persistent little sibling, maybe
- Small headache
- Annoying animal
- Dennis the Menace, e.g.
- Gnat or nag
- Irritating person
- Headache
- Younger sibling, stereotypically
- Mosquito, for example
- Target for an exterminator
- Annoying sort
- Ramona, per Beezus
- Unwelcome visitor
- Fly in the face, e.g.
- Weevil, e.g.
- Fungus gnat, e.g.
- Gnat, e.g.
- Annoying thing
- Threat to crops
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - March 15, 2024
- LA Times - March 14, 2024
- USA Today - March 08, 2024
- LA Times - January 15, 2024
- USA Today - January 03, 2024
- LA Times - December 05, 2023
- LA Times - October 07, 2023
- New York Times - October 04, 2023
- LA Times - September 05, 2023
- LA Times - July 09, 2023
- LA Times - July 07, 2023
- USA Today - July 07, 2023
- New York Times - May 21, 2023
- New York Times - April 10, 2023
- New York Times - January 31, 2023
- New York Times - January 16, 2023
- New York Times - December 21, 2022
- New York Times - December 19, 2022
- USA Today - November 08, 2022
- LA Times - October 01, 2022
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