Clues for the word "MOSQUITO"
We've had 20 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 21 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on October 03, 2023.
Definition of mosquito
- n. - Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic.
Referring Clues
- Twin-engined W.W. II plane
- Little sucker
- Summertime pest
- Estival pest
- Summer pest
- Patio pest
- Kind of net
- Disease-spreading insect
- British WWII multi-role combat aircraft
- Insect
- Malaria-carrying insect
- Insect, the female of which sucks blood
- For a carrier of disease, doctor's capital!
- Fly low over south part
- Insect in diminutive temple, might you say?
- Doctors abandon oxygen
- Doctors leave ring for insect
- Virus-transmitting insect
- Honduran coast to which Paul Theroux's hero fled in 1981
- Criminal patterns, in brief
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - October 03, 2023
- New York Times - May 04, 2023
- Daily Quick - April 10, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - January 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - September 11, 2017
- Guardian Quick - August 10, 2017
- Guardian Quick - April 22, 2017
- Daily Quick - April 10, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - August 07, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 05, 2013
- Washington Post - December 08, 2010
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 14, 2010
- Guardian Prize - April 17, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - June 18, 2008
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 04, 2007
- Guardian Quick - July 19, 2006
- Guardian Quick - March 16, 2006
- Guardian Quick - July 24, 2005
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 17, 2004
- Guardian Cryptic - August 13, 2003
- New York Times - October 19, 2000