Crossword-Solution: CLEG
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cleg | n. | A small breeze or horsefly. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “CLEG”
| Clue | Answers |
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| British gadfly | 1 answer |
| Fly with a painful bite | 1 answer |
| Gadfly, in Britain | 1 answer |
| Swift fly | 1 answer |
| Horsefly | 3 answers |
| Gadfly | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CLEG (3)
Rarely has the author drawn more truly from life than in the cases of Nance and 'the Hempie'; never more typical Scotsman of the humble sort than the farmer Peter Chrystie."--_London Athenæum._ _CLEG KELLY, ARAB OF THE CITY.
The noise made the animals dread the bot-fly or “cleg.” This torment makes them throw their tails up, and rush with fury through the fields or to the byres to shelter themselves from its attacks.
CLEG—A gad-fly, but git yan i’ yer neck whol on a het day, an’ let it git agiat sooken, an’ than common cleg’s fine eniuf.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1974–2013).