Clues for the word "BEETLE"
We've had 104 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 182 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on January 12, 2026.
Definition of beetle
- v. t. - A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- v. t. - A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
- v. t. - To beat with a heavy mallet.
- v. t. - To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
- v. t. - Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
- v. i. - To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
Referring Clues
- Ladybug, e.g.
- Popular car, again
- Retro car
- Popular 1990's revival
- Bug on the road
- Popular VW
- Classic Volkswagen
- Volkswagen bug
- Zyzzyva, e.g.
- Automotive comeback of 1998
- June bug, for example
- Type of Volkswagen
- Camp Swampy private Bailey
- Rabbit relative?
- Car model that Herbie is
- Bug carrying passengers?
- Bug on the road?
- Bug in a garage?
- Volkswagen classic
- Bailey at Camp Swampy
- It has about 350,000 species
- Common bug
- Ladybug
- June bug, e.g.
- Bailey of the comics
- Pvt. Bailey
- Rabbit's cousin?
- VW bug
- Vw bug
- Ladybug, for one
- Firefly, for one
- Scarab, e.g.
- Scarab, for one
- Scarab
- Ladybug, for instance
- Boll weevil's family
- Classic VW
- Bug
- Scarab or classic Volksie
- Retro VW
- Scarab or ladybug
- June bug, for one
- Scarab bug
- Circus clown car, often
- Bug on wheels
- Bug with wheels
- Imago of a grub
- Ladybug, for example
- "___ Bailey" (comic strip)
- VW model
- "Alexander ___"
- Scurry - iconic small car
- Insect (from Colorado?)
- Iconic German car, first produced in 1938
- One insect let out another
- Coleopteran
- 8's (very small) friend
- Goliath, for instance, was no stag!
- Party game with mallet
- Film car getting gas? 26 it's said for effect
- Insect
- Insect let out another
- Ladybird, say
- Insect with hardened forewings - scurry
- Insect with hard forewings
- Type of insect
- Insect with protective forewings
- Celebrate - perhaps with this car?
- A crawler on the motorway?
- Insect found in Volkswagen
- Bug you might find on a plant (or in another kind of plant)
- GI Bailey
- Insect, source of sugar, having large enzyme openings
- Project to scuttle bombardier, potentially
- Scoot along in a car
- Insect the French found on vegetable
- It's used to pound an insect
- Insect, let loose, swallowed by another
- "The French bête" initially translated as "insect"
- Example of business outlet for German car?
- Insect let loose on another
- Ladybug or scarab
- Firefly or ladybug
- Insect type
- Bug on the road?
- German car in which soundly to defeat the French
- British support returning the French bug
- Bailey of comics
- Little VW
- One flier finishing a little after another
- Certain insect
- Garden pest
- Ladybug or weevil
- Firefly or ladybug, e.g.
- Insect with wing cases
- Insect with a stag variety
- Weevil or ladybug
- Firefly or scarab
- Ladybird
- Sort of creature symbolizing rebirth in ancient Egypt
- Firefly, e.g.
- Ladybird e.g.
- Ladybug or firefly
- Blue ___ (DC Comics hero)
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - January 12, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 08, 2026
- Mirror Daily - September 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 22, 2024
- USA Today - September 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 13, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 24, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 20, 2024
- Family Time - February 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 10, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 12, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 27, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 11, 2023
- New York Times - October 09, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 13, 2023
- Mirror Daily - September 03, 2023
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