Insects

Most of them have 6 / 7 letters. The first letters that occur most often are B, M, A. Each answer links to its own page with more clues.

This list has 49 answers, from 3 to 9 letters; 63% of them have five to seven. In crosswords the category is usually signalled by a short opener such as “tiny”, “small”, “biting”, so the clue narrows the family before the crossings do. The members that catch solvers out are the rarer ones: ELATER (Click beetle), PHASMID (Stick insect) and GREENFLY (Aphid pest).

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