Crossword-Solution: CICADAS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cicadas | pl. | of Cicada |
We have 32 clues for the answer “CICADAS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Large, noisy insects | 1 answer |
| Their cyclical emergence is divided into "broods" by year | 1 answer |
| Summertime noisemakers | 1 answer |
| Summer noisemakers | 1 answer |
| Summer droners | 1 answer |
| Summer buzzers | 1 answer |
| Shrill insects | 1 answer |
| Shrill bugs | 1 answer |
| Seventeen-year locusts, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Periodical pests | 1 answer |
| Noisy summer insects | 1 answer |
| Noisy summer bugs | 1 answer |
| Noisy bugs | 1 answer |
| Loud buzzers | 1 answer |
| Latin for "tree crickets" | 1 answer |
| Late summer whiners | 1 answer |
| Large droning bugs | 1 answer |
| Insects that may emerge after 17 years | 1 answer |
| Insects on a 17-year cycle | 1 answer |
| Insects in swarms | 1 answer |
| Hummers in summer | 1 answer |
| Harvest flies. | 1 answer |
| Flying noisemakers | 1 answer |
| Droning insects | 1 answer |
| Cyclical insects | 1 answer |
| Bugs that emerge septendecennially | 1 answer |
| 17-year insects | 1 answer |
| Locusts. | 2 answers |
| stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings | 2 answers |
| Noisy insects | 3 answers |
| Buzzing insects | 3 answers |
| Winged insects | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CICADAS (5)
She could become a mere receptacle for heat, or become a color, like the bright lizards that darted about on the hot stones outside her door; or she could become a continuous repetition of sound, like the cicadas.
The deeps of the sky are mottled with singing wings of every color and tone—clouds of brilliant chrysididae dancing and swirling in joyous rhythm, golden-barred vespidae, butterflies, grating cicadas and jolly rattling grasshoppers—fairly enameling the light, and shaking all the air into music.
They shot the blackbirds because they pecked the fruit, and killed the hedgehogs lest they should suck the cows; they poisoned the crickets for eating the crumbs in the kitchen, and smothered the cicadas which used to sing all summer in the lime trees.
After a stop over night and an exploration of the miniature-grand volcanic scene, we pulled on across the canyon and took the grade where the cicadas simmered audibly in the noon sunshine among the hillside manzanitas.
But sexual excitement in the female became associated with the hearing of the love-call, and then the sound-producing organ of the male began to improve, until it attained to the emission of the long-drawn-out soft notes of the mole-cricket or the maenad-like cry of the cicadas.
Quotes with CICADAS (3)
derelict. my voice cracked and yolk poured out. wind chimes rigid, no breeze, no song. my wings found hidden in your suitcase. pleas for help mistaken for a swan song. i'm stuffing pages from my journal down my throat as kindling. hoping the smoke will get the taste of you out of my mouth. he looks at me from across the room and all i want is to push him against the wall. ravage. ravage. carnage has never been more vogue. is it still art if it doesn't bring you to your knees?…
And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting slabs of sandstone in the earth, ground water is creeping. Ground water seeps and slides, across and down, across and down, leaking from here to there, minutely at a rate of a mile a year. What a tug of waters goes on! There are flings and pulls in every direction at every moment. The world is a wild wrestle under the grass; earth shall be moved. What else is …
THE LILIESThis morning it was, on the pavement, When that smell hit me again And set the houses reeling. People passed like rain: (The way rain moves and advances over the hills) And it was hot, hot and dank, The smell like animals, strong, but sweet too. What was it? Something I had forgotten. I tried to remember, standing there, Sniffing the air on the pavement. Somehow I thought of flowers. Flowers! That bad smell! I looked: down lanes, past houses--There, behind a hoardin…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 36 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).