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Tick Eg Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is PEST which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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99%4Exact Match!
noun

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a persistently annoying person

• any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

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noun

• very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks

47%15 "Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick" writer
noun

• United States poet (1869-1950)

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