Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Entomological Enigmas of Garden Invaders
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Inducers of leafy growths, hiding larvae inside swellings (10)
- 2. Green pigment destroyed by certain piercing sap-suckers (11)
- 3. Pale-winged phloem feeders often mistaken for tiny moths (10)
- 4. Clueing to shell-less or shelled slimy garden foes (8)
- 6. Tiny phloem-sucker, hinting at its stealthy feeding (6)
- 8. Scale insect family known for waxy coverings on stems (8)
- 10. Cryptic clue for moth larvae, named after the mythic creature (6)
Down
- 5. Order cloaking garden pests in scaled wings (11)
- 7. Minute insects causing silvery damage, tricky to spot (6)
- 9. Microscopic worms causing root disruption silently beneath (9)
- 11. Cryptic bird name distracting from leaf-gnawing larvae (6)
- 12. Snail-like garden invader without shell, creeping stealthily (7)
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