The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word AMBER which also is the latest solution we found used in Boston Globe in 2009.
Old bug-trapper crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AMBER | 100 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Old bug-trapper
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- amber
- resin
- flypaper
- vamp
- rut
- owl
- canoe
- aviator
- hunter
- snare
- web
- hide
Crossword Answer definitions
AMBER noun- Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
- A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
- A yellow-orange colour.
- The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
- The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
- To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
- To preserve in amber.
- To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
- To take on the yellow colour of amber.
- Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
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