Clues for the word "PESTS"
We've had 169 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 390 times in crosswords. It was last seen in USA Today crossword on March 14, 2025.
Referring Clues
- Gnats and brats
- Pains in the neck
- Rats, gnats, etc.
- Younger siblings, traditionally
- Flies or gadflies
- Baneful bunch
- Gnats, rats, etc.
- Annoyances
- Flies around the world?
- Creatures with six or more legs, usually
- Pains, so to speak
- Buttinskies
- Annoyers
- Flies, ants and such
- Raid targets
- Bad news for a crop farmer
- Targets of swats
- Flies, e.g.
- Royal pains
- Younger brothers, stereotypically
- Tormentors
- Termites and such
- Noodges
- Annoying kids
- Moles, moths, et al.
- Babysitter's banes
- Annoying ones
- Kids, at times
- Bothers
- Gnats and nits
- Roaches, ants, etc.
- Nuisances
- Nudniks
- Bugs and slugs, e.g.
- Buggers
- Termites, e.g.
- Gadflies, e.g.
- Orkin victims
- Raid victims
- Bothersome ones
- Gnats and mice
- Gnats and moles
- They're bothersome
- They may be hard to get rid of
- Vexatious folks
- Spray prey
- Ants and weeds
- Vexing folks, e.g.
- Baby brothers, typically
- Cockroaches, for example
- They're exterminated
- 41-Across, e.g.
- They're a nuisance
- Gnats and ants, e.g.
- Mosquitoes, gnats, etc.
- Vermin
- Insecticide targets
- Exterminator's targets
- They might be smoked out
- Annoying people or things
- Annoying things
- Raid's targets
- Spray targets
- Gnats and flies
- Gnats, rats and brats
- Irritants
- Vexations
- Gnats, e.g.
- Flies and gnats
- Mosquitoes, e.g.
- Skeeters, e.g.
- Gnat and rat
- Irksome individuals
- Troublesome ones
- Little brothers, often
- Irksome ones
- They may really bug you
- Orkin targets
- Reasons to call an exterminator
- Naggers, for example
- Real nuisances
- Gnats and mosquitoes
- Exterminators' victims
- Raccoons around campsites, e.g.
- Bedbugs, e.g.
- Vexatious sorts
- Flies and such
- Pains
- Gnats, flies and such
- Crop invaders
- Ants, at a picnic
- Rats and gnats
- Badgers
- Stinkbugs and others
- Rats, gnats and brats
- Bothersome people or animals
- Little brothers, typically
- Vexatious ones
- Hecklers, e.g.
- Creatures with six or more legs, typically
- Kid brothers or sisters, at times
- Ones who won't leave you alone
- Flies, roaches and such
- Locusts, termites, etc.
- Kitchen ants and gnats
- Annoying sorts
- Plural of 13-Down
- Those that get on one's nerves
- Victims of Raid and d-CON
- Ants, e.g.
- Raid or d-CON victims
- They annoy the heck out of you
- Brats or gnats
- Nudges
- Weevils, to cotton farmers
- Annoying types
- Nits and gnats
- Bothersome sorts
- They may bug you
- Irritating ones
- Persistently annoying persons
- From the cheapest source, they're unwanted
- In the cheapest seats, they make a nuisance of themselves
- Steps may be taken to destroy them
- Nuisances or destructive insects
- Younger siblings, at times
- Annoying people
- One takes steps to destroy them
- Ones that have infested four puzzle answers
- Swatters' victims
- Unwelcome company
- Our little darlings, about to start school, can be a problem
- Thorns in one's side
- One can take steps to control them
- Lapdogs harbour small bugs
- Anagrammatic intruders in this puzzle's longest Across answers
- Mosquitoes and mice
- Invaders of crops
- Flies in the face of someone?
- Flea and fly, for two
- They're annoying
- Ants and gnats, e.g.
- Gnats and rats
- Bugs that bug
- Bedbugs and such
- Bothersome people
- Weevils, e.g.
- Unpopular creatures
- Steps may be taken to control them
- They are into bugging
- Fleas and flies, e.g.
- Mosquitoes and gnats
- Annoying creatures
- Annoying critters
- Annoying younger siblings, e.g.
- Unwelcome animals
- Bothersome beings
- Bugs landing in your ears, say
- Unwanted creatures
- Fleas and flies
- Brats and gnats
- Annoying bugs
- Younger siblings, probably
- Dennis the Menace types
- Gnats and boll weevils
- Unwanted picnic invaders
- Gnats, flies, etc.
- Invaders such as 58-Down and 66-Across
- Mosquitoes or flies
Last Seen In
- USA Today - March 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 02, 2025
- LA Times - February 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 14, 2025
- LA Times - January 06, 2025
- USA Today - January 05, 2025
- Daily American - December 12, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 09, 2024
- USA Today - December 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 21, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 10, 2024
- Daily American - August 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 28, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 08, 2024
- New York Times - July 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 30, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 14, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 02, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 01, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 22, 2024
- Daily American - March 05, 2024
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