The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SLUGS , but the solution may also be SNAILS which is one of the most recent solution (2012 in The Onion).
Garden pests crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SLUGS | 27 % | 5 |
| WEEDS | 23 % | 5 |
| APHIDS | 18 % | 6 |
| JAPANESEBEETLES | 18 % | 15 |
| SNAILS | 9 % | 6 |
| ANTS | 5 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Garden pests
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- aphids
- caterpillars
- maggots
- slugs
- snails
- weevils
- hazel
- metal
- cope
- brood
- lode
- wheal
Crossword Answer definitions
SLUGS noun- Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
- A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
- A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
- (rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
- A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors but lacks a prime mover.
- (television editing) A black screen.
- A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
- A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
- The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- A hindrance, an obstruction.
- A ship that sails slowly.
- To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- (of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
- To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
- To load with a slug or slugs.
- To make sluggish.
- A hard blow, usually with the fist.
- To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SLUGS
- Garden pests
- Garden creatures
- Whups
- Blobby garden pests
- Criminal's quarters?
- Wooden nickels?
- Counterfeit coins
- Couch potatoes
- Garden creepers
- Worthless tokens
More clues leading to the result WEEDS
- Garden intruders
- Vacant-lot phenomena
- Jenji Kohan show before "Orange Is the New Black"
- Queen Anne's laces
- Showtime series
- Bed intruders?
- Hoer's targets
- Little green invaders
- Garden pests
- Bed invaders
More clues leading to the result APHIDS
- Plant pests
- Plant lice
- Fruit farmers' bane
- Garden-destroying insects
- Prey for ladybugs
- Insects that secrete honeydew
- Honeydew secreters
- Snacks for ladybugs
- Farm pests
- Gardener's concern
More clues leading to the result JAPANESEBEETLES
More clues leading to the result SNAILS
- Escargots
- Escargot
- Paradigms of sluggishness
- Paradigms of slowness
- Whelk and periwinkle
- Paragons of slowness
- Symbols of slowness
- Slowpokes
- Slow movers
- Slow movers, proverbially