Clues for the word "PUPA"
We've had 87 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 202 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on September 09, 2025.
Definition of pupa
- n. - Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
- n. - A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
Referring Clues
- Post-larval insect
- Insect stage
- Larva successor
- Insect in a cocoon
- Pre-imago stage
- Insect form
- Metamorphosis stage
- Chrysalis, e.g.
- Cocoon's contents
- Stage in a bug's life
- Post-larva stage
- Insect stage after larva
- Cocoon occupant
- Cocoon contents
- Cocoon inhabitant
- Butterfly stage
- Cocoon resident
- Insect in its cocoon
- Cocoon dweller
- Stage of metamorphosis
- Stage that includes a cocoon
- Postlarval stage
- Stage between larva and adult
- Insect reproductive stage
- Inactive stage of an insect's life (4)
- Future moth
- Former larva
- Cocoon, for example
- Cocoon stage
- Imago-in-training
- India's neighbor (Abbr.)
- Imago-to-be
- Immature butterfly
- Immature butterfly
- Immature butterfly
- Immature butterfly
- Onetime larva
- Stage between larva and imago
- Infant insects
- Cocoon occupier
- One-time larva
- Part of a life transformation
- Larva's descendant
- Butterfly, formerly
- Cocooned stage
- Post-larval stage
- Future butterfly
- Thing in a cocoon
- Caterpillar product
- Insect life stage
- Cocoon's content
- Insect's stage
- Insect stage of development
- Insect life stage between larva and adult
- Chrysalis
- Dad holds up an immobile creature
- Stage of an insect's development
- Backed up by dad, this young creature is inactive
- Not a fully grown creature, whichever way you look at it
- Immature creature - ant's first stage as insect
- Insect in the stage after larva
- It's not fully-grown, anyway
- Stage that means "doll" in Latin
- Butterfly-to-be
- Metamorphic stage
- Insect's quiescent stage
- Life in a cocoon
- Young boxer, maybe, requires a period of development
- Young mammal with a young insect
- Monarch's stage (revolving) erected by state
- Less than mature mammal on top of a less than mature insect
- A pup, as you may see, is not yet perfect
- Insect development stage
- Immature insect
- Young setter, perhaps a future monarch?
- Insect phase
- Stage after larva
- Larval stage
- Maturing mosquito
- Insect in the inactive stage of development
- Cocoon-bound bug
- Life stage originally represented by the circled letters, prior to metamorphosis
- Stage for a butterfly
- Stage in an insect's life cycle
- Butterfly-to-be, while in a cocoon
- Part of a moth's life cycle
- Inactive little creature
Last Seen In
- LA Times - September 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 29, 2024
- Family Time - August 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 16, 2024
- Mirror Mini - February 01, 2024
- New York Times - January 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 25, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 22, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 26, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 03, 2023
- Family Time - February 26, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 08, 2023
- Mirror Mini - February 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 07, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - November 04, 2022
- New York Times - August 06, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 27, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 20, 2022
- New York Times - October 31, 2021
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