Crossword-Solution: FIREFLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Firefly | n. | Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “FIREFLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Kind of beetle that glows in the dark | 1 answer |
| tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots | 1 answer |
| glowy insect | 1 answer |
| glow-worm | 1 answer |
| beetle that glows in the dark | 1 answer |
| Summer blinker | 1 answer |
| Operetta by Friml. | 1 answer |
| Night light source | 1 answer |
| Luminescent insect | 1 answer |
| Luminescent critter | 1 answer |
| Lightning bug | 1 answer |
| Insect you can see in the dark | 1 answer |
| Bug that lights up | 1 answer |
| Bioluminescent beetle | 1 answer |
| *Insect that can be seen in the dark | 1 answer |
| It lights up the night | 2 answers |
| Friml operetta | 3 answers |
| Night Light | 14 answers |
| click beetle | 27 answers |
| BEETLE, type of | 31 answers |
| Glow | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with FIREFLY (5)
Mingled there with the streets and alleys, The railroad-yard and the clock-tower bright, Demon clouds crossed ancient valleys; Across wide lotus-ponds of light I marked a giant firefly's flight.
Then, after passing, still clinging to the walls, defaced rags of the bills of last year’s Circus, I came to a back field near a timber-yard where the Circus itself had been, and where there was yet a sort of monkish tonsure on the grass, indicating the spot where the young lady had gone round upon her pet steed Firefly in her daring flight.
Let the rain now fall in torrents, putting out the firefly’s lamp; let the wind and thunder roar their loudest, and the lightnings smite the earth with intolerable light, frightening the poor monkeys in their wet, leafy habitations, little would I heed it all on my dry bed, under my dry, palm-leaf thatch, with glorious fire to keep me company and protect me from my ancient enemy, Darkness.
But then I heard instead the slow-flapping wings of the raven; and, at intervals, now a firefly, now a gleaming butterfly rose into the rayless air.
The crickets chirped in the hedges; now and then a firefly flashed before them; the trees seemed wrapped in silent awe at the majesty of the bewildering heavens.
Quotes with FIREFLY (3)
I had a dream about you last night. I was alone on a dark night and you came to me as a firefly. I knew it was you because you were the brightest.
Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black magic is so easy — it comes from lust, from fear and anger, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. The sort I do is harder. It comes from something deeper than that, a truer and purer source — harder to tap, harder to keep, but ultimately more elegant, more powerful. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It ca…
Daddy didn’t say anything for a minute or so, and then he reached up and caught a firefly as it glowed beside him. “See this light?” he asked me when the firefly lit up his hand.“Yes’r.”“That light is bright enough to light up a little speck of the night sky so a man can see it a ways away. That’s what God expects us to do. We’re to be lights in the dark, cold days that are this world. Like fireflies in December.”“Time meandered on without Gemma’s momma and daddy, and it mean…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).