Clues for the word "WASP"
We've had 186 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 470 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on January 08, 2026.
Definition of wasp
- n. - Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.
Referring Clues
- Stinger
- Member of a traditional establishment
- Slender-bodied insect
- Mud dauber, e.g.
- Slender-waisted insect
- Insect in a colony
- One of a traditional elite
- Ethnic acronym
- Target of some humor in The New Yorker
- Big stinger
- Nest builder in the eaves
- Winged stinger
- Yellow jacket
- Thin-waisted flier
- Colony member
- Velvet ant
- Stinging flier
- Thin-waisted insect
- Kind of waist
- Slim-waisted stinger
- Narrow-waisted stinger
- Paper nest builder
- Stinging insect
- Female member of the comic book Avengers
- Striped stinger
- Flying stinger
- Bee's cousin
- Queen, maybe
- Petulant person
- Hornet, e.g.
- Insect with a stinger
- Yellow jacket, for one
- Nest dweller
- Bee relative
- Mud dauber, for one
- Slender-bodied flier
- Slender-waisted stinger
- Hornet
- Darting stinger
- Thin waist exemplar
- Winged insect
- Tarantula's nemesis
- Insect with a slender waist
- Fig pollinator
- Hornet, for one
- It stings
- Female with a sting
- Velvet ant, for one
- Slender-bodied stinger
- Slender stinger
- Hornet's relative
- Nasty stingers
- Hornet's kin
- Small stinger
- Picnic pest
- Insect that can control the sex of its offspring
- Attic nester
- Waist type
- Country club member, stereotypically
- High-status American, stereotypically
- Target of many a New Yorker cartoon
- Builder of paper houses
- Builder of paper houses
- Nest pest
- Stinging pest
- Nasty stinger
- Nest resident
- Nasty insect
- Hornet's cousin
- Stinger in a nest
- Source of some stings
- Garden stinger
- Fairyfly, for one
- Republican voter, stereotypically
- Direct descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims, e.g.
- It may sting
- The velvet ant, for one
- Tarantula hawk, e.g.
- Scary stinger
- Buzzing insect
- Dangerous stinger
- Paper nest inhabitant
- Caucasian
- Upper-crust sort, stereotypically
- Mud-dauber, e.g.
- Eaves nest-builder
- Hornet relative
- Social insect
- Important part of pest biocontrol
- Bee's relative
- One might be involved in a sting
- Mayflower passenger?
- Female W.W. II enlistee
- Female WWII enlistee
- Social worker?
- Builder of paper nests
- Martin Van Buren was the first president who wasn't one
- Insect with a hanging nest
- Nest-building stinger
- Small winged nester
- Mandrake the magician's nemesis
- One on a sting operation?
- Nesting insect
- Maker of a papery nest
- Persistently petty person
- Bee's kin
- Insect resembling a bee
- Type of waist
- A real stinger
- "Inside the Electric Circus" band
- "The Last Command" band
- "The Crimson Idol" band
- "Motionless in White" band
- Covered The Who's "The Real Me"
- "I Wanna Be Somebody" band
- 22 across, toothed thing soaring over head of prey
- Insect
- Was soft on a rugby player!
- Western snake that stings rather than bites
- Lived quietly as one of 15 or one of the 18?
- Insect often irritating in summer
- Privileged American used to be attracted to power
- Insect or white-headed snake
- Narrow-waisted insect
- Insect with a sting in its tail
- Buzzer now loud?
- "Blind in Texas" metal band that stings?
- Insect observed coming back quietly
- White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
- The velvet ant is one
- Stinger used to be soft
- Stereotypically privileged insect?
- Insect that used to be quiet
- Hornet or yellow jacket, for example
- Relative of a bee
- Insect lived quietly
- Stinger with a slender "waist"
- Narrow-waisted flyer
- Nest-building flier
- Nest-building insect
- Ant / bee relative
- Maker of a wood-pulp nest
- Flying pest
- Insect or woolly headed snake
- Insect that stings
- Bee-eater's prey
- Narrow-waisted bug
- Insect often mistaken for a bee
- Flying insect with a narrow waist
- The buzzer was quiet
- Marvel superhero with the power to shrink, with "the"
- Participant in a sting?
- With 35-Down, papery construction best left alone
- A buzzer used to be quiet
- Flier in a football jersey
- Insect that builds a paper nest
- Only a female one can sting
- Insect such as a mud dauber
- The "murder hornet" is one
- Insect in a nest
- "Ant-Man and the ___" (2018 film)
- "Ant Man and the ___"
- Center of a sting operation?
- Papery nest dweller
- Yellowjacket or hornet
- Insect in a papery nest
- Insect dating from the Jurassic era
- Insect that makes a papery nest
- Builder of a papery nest
- Fig ___ (winged insect)
- Mud dauber, for example
- The deceptively named tarantula hawk, for one
- Stingy sort?
- This six-footer lived at Stepney central
- Insect with a papery nest
- Insect with a sting
- The fairyfly (the smallest known insect in the world) is one
- Another stingy little thing?
- Insect that first appeared in the Jurassic era
- Is no longer soft, and may sting
- Yellow jacket, e.g.
- Ant-Man's partner
- Member of a historically privileged U.S. group
- Stinger in a swarm
- Ant-Man partner
- Queen mother?
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - January 08, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 22, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 19, 2025
- New York Times - November 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 29, 2025
- Mirror Mini - October 15, 2025
- LA Times - October 06, 2025
- LA Times - September 12, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 31, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 18, 2025
- New York Times - June 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 08, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 19, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 14, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 27, 2025
- LA Times - March 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 05, 2025
- Daily American - February 28, 2025
- LA Times - February 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 17, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 20, 2025
- LA Times - January 20, 2025
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