___ beetle (insect that feeds on poop) Crossword Clue

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___ beetle (insect that feeds on poop) Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. fecal matter of animals
(verb)
1. defecate; used of animals
2. fertilize or dress with dung

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BEETLE (verb)
1. be suspended over or hang over
2. beat with a beetle
BEETLE (noun)
1. a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
2. insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
BEETLE (adjective)
1. jutting or overhanging
INSECT (noun)
1. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
2. small air-breathing arthropod

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Across

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14. Not digital

15. Bowled over

16. De Armas who appeared in the trailer for Yesterday (but not the actual film)

17. Device for channel surfing

18. ___ of honor

19. Drill attachment

20. Violinist who saved Carnegie Hall from demolition

22. Choice when you can’t choose between two options

23. Ceremony novelist Leslie Marmon ___

24. Body part that’s a palindrome

25. Portmanteau word for an outdoor enclosure for felines

26. Donkey sound (Continued at 40-Across)

27. Filming device, for short

29. These symbols, for short: ( )

30. Term punningly referenced by 33-Across when an insect got trapped in a relay in a Harvard Mark II

33. Programming pioneer and namesake of an annual tech conference

34. Insect that sounds like 33-Across but wasn’t the insect referenced in the 30-Across clue (which was a moth)

35. Bird in a murder

36. Exercise protocol with bursts of activity

37. Medical scan that some pacemakers can be damaged by

40. See 26-Across

41. Pixar movie "Monsters, ___"

44. Giving up of rights, formally

46. Too grumpy to deal with any nonsense right now

49. Herbivores with prominent horns

50. ___ occasion (event of great importance)

52. Basketball star Ogunbowale

53. The P in AP exams

54. Send in, as payment

55. Open-faced golf club for getting out of a bunker

56. Head Shoulders ___ and Toes

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Down

1. Colorful in a tacky way

2. Bodysuit for a baby

3. Dish wrapped in a corn husk

4. Garment paired with “dagger” in a spy-related phrase

5. Warming drinks often enjoyed at ski lodges

6. “It’s been ___! How have you been?”

7. Overly repetitive

8. "I'm well ___, thanks"

9. Item used to guide a horse

10. Use the + button on a calculator

11. Person who deliberately undermines an organization

12. Bringing together

13. Rhetorical tactic involving appealing to the emotions

21. Protein source made of fermented soybeans

22. Haircut provider

25. Big fish named for its resemblance to a rug

28. Movie theaters repped by Nicole Kidman

29. More lively

30. "That really sticks in my ___!"

31. This looks bad!

32. Conversation subject

33. He’s not a kid anymore

34. Crunchy breakfast food

35. Apes with humanlike hands, for short

37. Nickname for someone who resembles a smaller version of you

38. Pro athlete in their first season

39. Maps within maps

41. Excuse from someone on their first week at the job

42. Unhelpful answer to “Does anyone know what time it is?”

43. Sounded like a pigeon

45. Ambulance’s warning sound

47. International organization founded to stimulate world trade

51. Sault ___ Marie, Ontario

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