Clues for the word "WEEVIL"
We've had 45 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 69 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on March 20, 2025.
Definition of weevil
- n. - Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed.
Referring Clues
- Crop-destroying beetle
- Plantation pest
- Snout beetle
- Destructive beetle
- Boll eater
- Cotton farmer's concern
- Cotton-eating beetle
- Flour infester
- Cotton pest
- Boll ___ (beetle type)
- Boll ___ (destructive insect)
- Grain pest
- One that's a bore?
- Boll menace
- Cotton-eating pest
- Flour pest
- Cotton planter's headache
- Beetle that eats cotton
- Boll ___
- Type of beetle that feeds of stored grain etc
- Small kind of 15 down
- Small beetle
- Small beetle with a long snout
- See 12
- ... Beatle, on Radio 6 - go live outside
- Insect pest that damages crops
- Kind of beetle that damages crops
- The Queen declares herself nefarious and a crawler
- Small beetle that feeds on plants
- You and I are backward? That takes the (ship's) biscuit!
- Insect wings of white and black
- It works against the grain
- The British nasty bug
- Insect chasing us is harmful
- We must get harmful insect
- Wife hasn't provided wicked little pest
- Granary pest
- A pest we get wicked with
- Boll ___ (pest)
- Creature we're down on, being no good
- Family of small plant-feeding beetles
- Cotton farm threat
- In very small numbers, it can be a nuisance
- Cotton farm pest
- Beetle
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - March 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 30, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 06, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 16, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - October 30, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - August 28, 2017
- Universal - August 14, 2017
- New York Times - May 17, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - February 01, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - January 30, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 09, 2016
- Universal - July 24, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 26, 2016
- Guardian Quick - October 27, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 03, 2015
- Guardian Quick - May 02, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 16, 2015
- LA Times - February 05, 2015
- Washington Post - January 13, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 30, 2014
- New York Times - July 13, 2014
- Guardian Quick - June 06, 2014
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 15, 2014
- And in 39 more crossword puzzles...