Clues for the word "CICADA"
We've had 61 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 142 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 23, 2025.
Definition of cicada
- n. - Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.
Referring Clues
- Loud insect
- Harvest fly
- Insect with a 17-year life cycle
- Cyclical thing
- Noisy insect
- Summer buzzer
- Shrill flier
- Loud buzzer
- Noisy summer bug
- It may emerge after 17 years
- Noisy flier
- Bug with a loud love call
- Crop-destroying bug
- Locust
- Summer droner
- 17-year locust
- Shrill buzzer
- Large, noisy insect
- Loud bug
- Shrill insect
- Leafhopper relative
- One coming out of its shell?
- Locust's kin
- Noisy bug
- Insect that may live for 17 years
- Aphid cousin
- Loud summer bug
- Insect
- Big bug
- Loud creepy-crawly
- U.K. electronic band
- Chirping insect
- Insect makes a sound like ailing lass
- Droning bug
- Noisy tropical insect
- Agents ensnared amoral character with bug
- Loud chirping insect
- Girl said to be ill, but very chirpy
- Spies trap lout with this bug
- One accountant has daughter pinched by another - a chirpy creature
- Buzzer that you might hear only once every 17 years
- Drumming insect
- Noisy summer insect
- Bug untrustworthy fellow in CIA
- Rotter in American agency is a six footer
- Bug detected when spies captured scoundrel
- No gentleman among spies is a chirpy creature
- Insect often mistakenly referred to as a locust
- Large insect
- Buzzing bug
- Shrill summer buzzer
- In the CIA, no gentleman might be called a 'bug'
- Shrill summer noisemaker
- Figures a girl to be a noisy little thing!
- Droning insect
- Brood X insect
- Buzzing insect
- Summer bug
- Insect that resembles a locust
- Part of a summer swarm
- Insect that emerges en masse every 13 or 17 years
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 23, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 17, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 08, 2025
- LA Times - November 03, 2025
- Daily American - October 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 13, 2025
- Daily American - March 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 02, 2025
- New York Times - January 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 08, 2025
- LA Times - January 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 01, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 07, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - June 20, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 28, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - May 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 21, 2024
- Mirror Mini - May 01, 2024
- USA Today - April 26, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 18, 2024
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