Answer: MOTH
MOTH is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 140 times.
Referring Clues:
- Butterfly's cousin
- Sweater eater
- It's bad to keep in the closet
- Maker of holes
- Cocoon contents
- Closet eater?
- Cutworm, eventually
- Closet invader
- Hole maker
- Armyworm, eventually
- Wool eater
- Closet pest
- Phototropic flier
- Woolly bear, eventually
- *One attracted to a flame
- Insect that is drawn to flames
- The first "computer bug," in fact
- Lamp orbiter
- Former silkworm
- Clothing consumer
- Closet binger?
- It may bite your shorts
- Gypsy, for one
- Insect drawn to flames
- Bulb orbiter
- It might come out of the closet
- Lepidopterist's study
- Sweater muncher
- Closet problem
- Light lover
- Butterfly relative
- Nocturnal insect
- Flame fancier
- Light-bulb circler
- Gauzy-winged insect
- Night flier
- One attracted to a flame
- Army worm, eventually
- Night-flying insect
- Wool fancier
- Chrysalis result
- Bad thing to keep in the closet
- Former woolly bear
- Butterfly impersonator
- Pest attracted to light
- One drawn to a flame
- Light-headed flier?
- Closet cuisine fan?
- Evening flier
- Fluttery flier
- Closet trespasser
- One going toward the light
- Lover of light
- Adult silkworm
- Insect drawn to light
- Candlelight visitor?
- Woolly bear, finally
- Light-headed insect?
- Clothes alterer of a kind
- Flame flutterer
- Candle circler
- Butterfly look-alike
- Io, e.g.
- Gypsy or luna
- Luna, for one
- Sweater destroyer
- Flame-fancying flier
- Light-loving insect
- Flame-loving insect
- Fly-by-nighter, typically
- Winged closet invader
- Ex-caterpillar
- Nighttime flier
- Wool pest
- One drawn to flames
- Winged clothing consumer
- Porch light circler
- Light circler
- Candle lover
- Wool lover
- Destructive insect
- Noctoid
- Closet nuisance
- Lepidopterist's subject of study
- Night light sight
- Clothes closet pest
- Porch light circler [SEE NOTE ABOVE]
- Insect attracted to light
- Flier among hangers
- Fly-by-night?
- Light-loving flier
- Something that might come to light?
- See 14-Across
- Coat ruiner
- Butterfly cousin
- Insect that shorted out an early computer, spawning the term "computer bug"
- Nocturnal flier
- Closet concern
- Io or gypsy
- Grown-up silkworm
- Wardrobe ruiner
- Creature on the movie poster for "The Silence of the Lambs"
- Fabric-eater in a closet
- Cloth-eating insect
- ___-eaten
- Clothes consumer?
- Streetlight circler
- Racing sailboat
- Butterfly
- Fluttery insect
- Flyer drawn to flames
- Flying insect attracted to light
- Unpleasant find in a sweater
- Light-seeking flier
- Usually nocturnal insect
- Sweater predator
- Closet pest that loves wool
- Bulb circler
- It comes to light
- One may damage a wool coat
- Fabric-eating insect
- Former caterpillar
- Insect near a flame
- Sucker for a flame
- Fly-by-night type?
- Insect that eats wool
- One who's light-headed?
- Butterfly's relative
- Bug that flies into lights
- Wool-gatherer?
- Insect similar to a butterfly
- Light-headed creature?
- Insect whose larvae eat clothes
- Fan of the flame?
- Light-seeking insect
- Insect flitting around a flame
- Nocturnal fluttering insect
- Lepidopterist's subject
- Insect that flies toward lights at night
- Relative of a butterfly
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - September 22, 2025
- New York Times - April 07, 2025
- LA Times - March 22, 2025
- USA Today - February 05, 2025
- USA Today - November 21, 2024
- New York Times - November 11, 2024
- New York Times - May 14, 2024
- USA Today - April 23, 2024
- New York Times - February 14, 2024
- LA Times - June 13, 2023
- LA Times - May 24, 2023
- USA Today - January 27, 2023
- USA Today - August 26, 2022
- New York Times - July 03, 2022
- USA Today - May 17, 2022
- USA Today - February 25, 2022
- USA Today - February 24, 2022
- New York Times - January 14, 2022
- USA Today - October 26, 2021
- USA Today - September 08, 2021
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