Wood-eating insect Crossword Clue

We have the 7-letter answer for Wood-eating insect crossword clue, last seen in the New Yorker Crossword May 8, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

Wood-eating insect Crossword Answer

→25.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

EATING (noun)
1. the act of consuming food
INSECT (noun)
1. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
2. small air-breathing arthropod

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
EMITTER

More New Yorker Crossword (5/8/2025) Answers

Across

1. Recedes, as the tide

5. Impulse

9. Brazenness

10. “That happened to me, too”

11. Crafting staple used in drag makeup to mask one’s natural eyebrows

13. Intensifies

14. Leaflike symbol in a deck of cards

15. Counterpart of long., on a map

17. Former Secretary of the Interior Haaland

20. Use for ripe avocados

24. Like some lawsuits brought against mergers

All Answers

Down

1. Key ingredient in a custard

2. Like Michael Jordan or Stanley Tucci

3. Massachusetts or Hawaii, politically

4. Activity that seems to pass in the blink of an eye

5. More formal alternative to tú

6. Scrubbed after a shower?

7. Yukons and Sierras, e.g.

8. Frightened cry

12. Business that might have a sauna and a cold plunge

15. Alternative to J.F.K.

16. Cool ___ (archetypal family member)

18. Partner of “if” in some code

19. Wager

21. Street-address abbr. for a cul-de-sac, perhaps

22. Spot to make a deposit

23. Brain-scan option: Abbr.

All Answers