Hill-building insect Crossword Clue

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Hill-building insect 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

BUILDING (noun)
1. the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
2. the act of constructing something
INSECT (noun)
1. a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
2. small air-breathing arthropod

Hint 3: Anagram

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More Newsday Crossword (12/16/2025) Answers

Across

1. Touches on the shoulder

5. Sounds of regret

10. Traditional kilt wearer

14. Clear-sky color

15. Be patient for

16. Measly

17. Really ticked off

18. Filled with dryer fuzz

19. Back of an envelope

20. Sea bordering Saudi Arabia

23. Make a knot in

24. Calculate a sum

25. Annoy greatly

27. "Canine" trees

32. ''__ Sir or Madam . . .''

33. Night before a holiday

34. Use as a bed

36. Justice Kagan

39. Gala party

41. First Soviet leader

43. Self images?

44. Courtroom event

46. Short skirts

49. Cpls. and Sgts.

51. Part-spaniel mixed-breed canine

53. Most-spoken language in Africa

56. Baby goat

57. Defiant cry

58. No longer valid

64. Molecule portion

66. Cash, informally

67. Swirling current

68. Took a tumble

69. Biblical hymn

70. '__ of your business!'

71. Difficult journey

72. Taste or hearing

73. Walked heavily (on)

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Down

1. Cookbook meas.

2. ___ vera gel

3. Contented cat's sound

4. Playground plank

5. Liquid in dressing

6. "You're defeated!"

7. Group of outlaws

8. Ask to borrow cash

9. Arranged, as hair

10. Sunscreen letters

11. Difference between two societies

12. Walking __ (elated)

13. Laid-back person

21. Revered person

22. At no cost

26. ''Tall'' story

27. Skillful

28. Turn __ a new leaf

29. Have extensive debts

30. Consider to be

31. __ boom (jet sound)

35. Spanish boy

37. Taboo thing

38. Concerning, in memos

40. Per item

42. Sam for Samuel, for instance

45. 'Tender' beef cut

47. Slide on an icy road

50. Losing streaks

52. Beginning

53. Elevator passageway

54. Reservoir contents

55. 'You defeated me'

59. Money borrowed

60. ___ Well That Ends Well

61. Strong smell

62. SSN, to the IRS

63. Recolored

65. Jan. holiday honoree

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