Pest at a picnic — Daily Themed Crossword Answer
This clue appeared in the September 8 2026 Daily Themed Crossword. The answer is below, with its letter count.
The answer
ANT
3 letters
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Where this clue appears
September 8 2026
Daily
Daily Themed Crossword September 8 2026
ANT
One involved in a pantry raid
ANT
3
Tidbit for an aardvark
ANT
3
Hill building insect
ANT
3
Hill building insect
ANT
3
"Ewww! There's an ___ in the food!" (cry after seeing what's hidden in each of the picnic food items at 26a, 29a, 35a, and 4d)
ANT
3
Picnic intruder
ANT
3
Sugar-loving insect
ANT
3
Sugar-loving pest
ANT
3
Tiny member of a colony
ANT
3
Hill building insect
ANT
3
"___-Man," Marvel's 2015 superhero film featuring Paul Rudd as a burglar-turned-hero whose shrinking technology allows him to operate at a tiny insect scale
ANT
3
Hardworking insect in a colony
ANT
3
Boo-___ (crying sound)
HOO
3
Airport screening agency: Abbr.
TSA
3
Gawk at someone creepily (anagram of "loge")
OGLE
4
Flightless Australian bird that can grow up to two meters tall
EMU
3
Swimmer's units
LAPS
4
Horned farm animal whose kid is called "kid"
GOAT
4
Knights' titles
SIRS
4
Lambs' fathers
RAMS
4
Use a shovel
DIG
3
Boxing legend Muhammad ___
ALI
3
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