The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LEMUR which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1989.
Nocturnal animal crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LEMUR | 56 % | 5 |
| COON | 33 % | 4 |
| POSSUM | 11 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Nocturnal animal
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- night creature
- nocturnal creature
- lemur
- possum
- kinkajou
- peccary
- bat
- racoon
- indris
- badger
- owl
- ocelot
Crossword Answer definitions
LEMUR noun- Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
- Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).
- A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.
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 LEMUR
- Madagascar primate
- Madagascar tree-dweller
- Aye-aye
- "Madagascar" creature
- Monkey's uncle?
- Malagasy primate
- Large-eyed primate of Madagascar
- Nocturnal mammal whose name means "ghost"
- Wide-eyed primate
- Endangered mammal of Madagascar
More clues leading to the result COON
- Word before candy or mouth
- See 66 Down
- Critter seeming masked
- Masked critter
- Masked animal, for short
- Masked mammal, commonly
- Source of Davy Crockett's cap
- ___ cheese (sharp, crumbly cheddar)
- Ring-tailed critter
- Critter turned into a cap