The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LEECH which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2020.
Parasite crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LEECH | 60 % | 5 |
| SPONGE | 7 % | 6 |
| SPONGER | 7 % | 7 |
| HANGERON | 7 % | 8 |
| TAPEWORM | 3 % | 8 |
| TOADY | 2 % | 5 |
| FREERIDER | 2 % | 9 |
| FREELOADER | 2 % | 10 |
| DRONE | 2 % | 5 |
| MOOCH | 2 % | 5 |
| BLEEDER | 2 % | 7 |
| MITE | 2 % | 4 |
| TICK | 2 % | 4 |
| MOOCHER | 2 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Parasite
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- minion
- leech
- sponge
- deadbeat
- interference
- stray
- spurious
- clutter
- extraneous
- social
- noise
- static
Crossword Answer definitions
LEECH noun- An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
- A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
- A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
- To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
- To drain (resources) without giving back.
- A physician.
- (Heathenry) A healer.
- To treat, cure or heal.
- The vertical edge of a square sail.
- The aft edge of a triangular sail.
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 LEECH
- Bloodletter's critter
- Hanger-on
- Sponge
- Big sucker
- Bloodsucker
- Sucker
- Moocher
- Annelid useful to ancient doctors
- Annelid used in hirudotherapy
- Sucker at the lake
More clues leading to the result SPONGE
- Loofah, e.g.
- Holey water container?
- Mooch
- Kind of bath
- Absorbent wiper
- Moocher
- Spill sopper
- Type of bath or cake
- Freeloader
- Absorbent cleaner
More clues leading to the result SPONGER
More clues leading to the result HANGERON
- The last to leave the party
- Useless member of an entourage
- Toady
- Sycophant
- Groupie, e.g.
- Parasite
- Parasitic person
- Dependent.
- Sycophant.
- Follower
More clues leading to the result TAPEWORM
More clues leading to the result TOADY
- Apple-polisher
- Yes-man
- Apple polisher
- Overeager promotion seeker, maybe
- Sycophant
- Bootlicker
- Brown-noser
- Obsequious flatterer
- Ambitious flatterer
- Sucking-up sort
More clues leading to the result FREERIDER
More clues leading to the result FREELOADER
- Gravy-train passenger
- Sponge
- Parasite
- Two-legged sponge
- He expects something for nothing.
- Nonpaying party-goer: Slang.
- Scrounger
- Sponge of a sort
- One who mooches
More clues leading to the result DRONE
- Humming noise
- Run on
- Talk on and on
- Monotonous hum
- Speak in a monotone
- Apiary member
- Unmanned flight
- Unmanned military craft
- Queen bee's subject?
- Bagpipe noise
More clues leading to the result MOOCH
- Sponge
- Parasite
- Panhandle
- "Borrow" permanently
- Be a sponge
- Freeload
- Look for a handout
- Sponge (off of)
- Behave like Cab Calloway's "red hot hoochie coocher"?
- Schnorrer
More clues leading to the result BLEEDER
- Bloop relative
- Tank valve
- Parasite
- Leech, e.g.
- Sponger, leech.
- Hemophiliac.
- Grounder that squeezes between two infielders, in baseball slang
- Rolling infield hit
- Spot for a surgeon's clamp
- Target of a surgeon's clamp
More clues leading to the result MITE
- Small insect
- Wee arthropod
- Bed bug
- Scabies transmitter
- Teeny bit
- Tiny pest
- Far-from humongous creature
- Bitty bug
- Parasitic arachnid
- Teeny arachnid
More clues leading to the result TICK
- Little bloodsucker
- What a watch says
- Cuckoo clock sound
- Woodland pest
- Total sucker
- Watch word? (Tribute #5)
- Tiny danger in the woods
- 56 Down sound
- Bug on a hiker
- Minute piece?