Snake or skunk Crossword Clue

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Snake or skunk Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
2. wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SKUNK (noun)
1. American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
2. a defeat in a game where one side fails to score
SKUNK (verb)
1. defeat by a lurch
SNAKE (noun)
1. a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
2. a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
SNAKE (verb)
1. form a snake-like pattern
2. move along a winding path

Hint 3: Anagram

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OUSEL

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Down

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