Watch insect here shedding wings (6)

Independent Cryptic #12277 | 21 Down | 2026-02-12
Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

TICK (=insect, parasite) + <h> ER <e> (“shedding wings” means first and last letters are dropped); colloquially, a ticker is a timepiece, hence “watch”

Back to puzzle
Visit Independent's puzzle site →

Also seen in