Crumb carrier Crossword Clue

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Crumb carrier Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

CRUMB (noun)
1. a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
2. a very small quantity of something
CRUMB (verb)
1. break into crumbs
2. coat with bread crumbs
CARRIER (noun)
1. a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
2. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others

Hint 3: Anagram

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More WSJ Crossword (12/22/2025) Answers

Across

1. Braying animal

4. It is in the dictionary now, despite a jocular saying

8. Latitude line, of Cancer or of Capricorn

14. Hawaiian garland

15. Menageries

16. Couch potato’s gizmo

18. Low-fat breakfast item

20. Put on, as a play

22. “The Fountainhead” protagonist Howard

23. Grunge music genius posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

27. "RuPaul's Drag Race" network

30. Lhasa ___ (small dog)

31. Wisdom of the elders

32. On the ball

34. Genesis figure

35. Emergency signals

36. Linus’s prop, in “Peanuts” comics

41. Show clearly

42. Makes bales for the barn

43. Lion features

44. Sugar or ice unit

45. Parks in front of a bus?

49. Where there was no room for Mary and Joseph

50. Kitty Hawk setting

52. Outlaw’s moniker

55. Room at the top?

56. Uncontrolled development around a city, and a hint to this puzzle’s circles

61. Bonobo e.g.

62. Sound of yips, but not yaps?

63. Midterm, say

64. Tailor’s aid

65. Some vacation homes

66. Exceedingly

67. SFO posting: Abbr.

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1. Really big purchase of 1867

2. Lampooned

3. Indian lutes

4. Early Mexican

5. Debtor’s pledge

6. Neither partner

7. Chiding sound

8. Test, as a potential new dress

9. Singer McEntire

10. Golden Globe winner Sharif

11. Small facial scar, perhaps

12. Skater Midori

13. 100 yrs.

19. Scary-sounding lake

21. 1960s muscle car

24. Fondly remembered song

25. Dory or dinghy

26. Quonset shelter, say

28. Beech or birch

29. Three-piece suit piece

32. “Oh, were it not so!”

33. Pale

34. Curved paths

35. “Lost dog” handout, say

36. Trucker's rig

37. Tony winner “Dear ___ Hansen”

38. Gooey, sweet treat in many a mall

39. A in French class?

40. Paul Bunyan's blue ox

44. Zodiac border

45. Scoundrel

46. Like some audiobooks

47. 'Don't bother!'

48. Climb

50. Desert watering hole

51. Like shirtsleeve weather

53. Cooking fat

54. A fan of

56. The Trojans’ sch.

57. Letter after pi

58. Gun, as a motor

59. Guitar, in rock slang

60. General activity?

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