Picnic-crashing insect — Daily Themed Crossword Answer
This clue appeared in the April 28 2026 Daily Themed Crossword. The answer is below, with its letter count.
The answer
ANT
3 letters
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Tidbit for an aardvark
ANT
3
Hill building insect
ANT
3
Pest at a picnic
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
Cold cube from a freezer
ICE
3
Navigation aid on a smartphone: Abbr.
GPS
3
Popular three-ingredient sandwich order: Abbr.
BLT
3
Sniffing organ
NOSE
4
___ polish (beauty product)
NAIL
4
Hawaiian welcome garland
LEI
3
Hazardous urban haze
SMOG
4
___ mater (university from where one graduated)
ALMA
4
Wood-splitting tool
AXE
3
"The best is ___ to come"
YET
3
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