Clues for the word "ARMADILLO"
We've had 49 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 81 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on February 01, 2026.
Definition of armadillo
- n. - Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay.
- n. - A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.
Referring Clues
- Texas's official state small mammal
- Burrowing bony-plated animal
- Plated mammal
- Tanklike mammal
- Banded beast
- Well-shielded Southerner
- Burrowing animal
- Texas' official state small mammal
- Bony-plated forager
- Plated critter
- Armored mammal
- Sticky-tongued critter
- Mammal that jumps vertically when startled
- Animal
- Bony-plated beast
- Horny-plated animal
- Mammal disturbed mallard, duck going round island
- Toothless creature from Texas town including old copper with right to move
- Plated burrowing animal
- Mammal covered in plates
- Loony enters a stream to get duck, a protected species
- Mammal with protective plates
- Mail a lord sent out, which is naturally under personal cover
- Scaly burrowing animal
- Support, from chair, fuss about sick animal
- A Lima lord battling for this protected species
- 2014 World Cup mascot Fuleco, for one
- Bony-plated mammal
- Support fuss about sick animal
- A right crazy one? LOL! Crazy one of a number hiding around here
- Bony creature creates drama with lilo
- Nocturnal animal found in mall, radio broadcast
- Nocturnal creature in a stream grabbing Daffy Duck?
- Run into a wild, rough old animal
- One of 10 27, one right out of mind and sick with love
- One plated up, giving off aroma including herb
- Burrowing mammal
- Creature with plates
- Hard-plated creature
- Jocular, mad, illogical centre for protected species
- Anteater cousin
- Mammal that can roll into a ball
- I alarm old doddery creature
- Heavily plated creature
- Creature that rolls into a ball when threatened
- Critter crossing Texas roads
- Animal that the Aztecs called ayotochtli, or "turtle-rabbit"
- Mammal that can roll up into a ball
- Mammal with a protective shell
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - February 01, 2026
- LA Times - January 24, 2026
- Daily American - December 22, 2025
- Daily American - August 05, 2025
- New York Times - July 24, 2025
- Daily American - February 17, 2025
- Daily American - February 05, 2025
- Daily American - December 01, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 28, 2024
- Daily American - October 19, 2024
- Daily American - October 06, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 21, 2024
- Daily American - September 12, 2024
- Daily American - May 02, 2024
- Daily American - April 02, 2024
- Daily American - December 22, 2023
- Daily American - August 05, 2023
- Daily American - February 17, 2023
- Daily American - February 05, 2023
- Daily American - December 01, 2022
- Daily American - October 19, 2022
- New York Times - October 07, 2022
- Daily American - October 06, 2022
- Daily American - September 12, 2022
- USA Today - August 15, 2022
- Family Time - January 08, 2018
- Daily American - August 05, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - April 22, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - March 12, 2017
- New York Times - February 25, 2017
- And in 51 more crossword puzzles...