Answer: PESTS
PESTS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 144 times.
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
- Younger siblings, at times
- Ones that have infested four puzzle answers
- Swatters' victims
- Unwelcome company
- Thorns in one's side
- Flies in the face of someone?
- Flea and fly, for two
- They're annoying
- Ants and gnats, e.g.
- Gnats and rats
- Bedbugs and such
- Bothersome people
- Weevils, e.g.
- Unpopular creatures
- Mosquitoes and gnats
- Annoying critters
- Annoying younger siblings, e.g.
- Bothersome beings
- Unwanted creatures
- Fleas and flies
- Rats, gnats, and brats
- Brats and gnats
- Exterminators' targets
- Younger siblings, probably
- Dennis the Menace types
- Gnats and boll weevils
- Annoying bugs
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - December 09, 2024
- New York Times - July 10, 2024
- New York Times - July 05, 2023
- LA Times - May 14, 2023
- New York Times - February 26, 2023
- LA Times - February 05, 2023
- New York Times - December 02, 2022
- USA Today - October 21, 2022
- New York Times - September 19, 2022
- New York Times - September 05, 2022
- LA Times - June 03, 2022
- USA Today - March 10, 2022
- LA Times - March 06, 2022
- New York Times - February 20, 2022
- USA Today - January 03, 2022
- USA Today - October 22, 2021
- USA Today - September 28, 2021
- USA Today - August 25, 2021
- New York Times - December 07, 2020
- Netword - November 30, 2020
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