Answer: PUPATE
The answer PUPATE has 20 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Leave the larval stage
- Go into a cocoon
- To reach near-perfect stage of development, young animal took food
- Enter a nonfeeding state
- Young one consumed grub to do this
- Become a chrysalis
- Change into a chrysalis
- Grow from a larva
- Immature creature devoured in move towards adulthood
- Turn into a chrysalis
Last seen in:
- L.A. Times Daily - Jul 5 2020
- The Washington Post - Jul 5 2020
- The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,053 - Feb 11 2020
- USA Today - Sep 19 2019
- The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,232 - May 22 2019
- New York Times - May 14 2017
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26029 - February 23, 2015
- Wall Street Journal - Mar 30 2012 - March 30, 2012 - TV News Pun-dits
- L.A. Times Daily - Jul 1 2011
- New York Times - Sep 5 2010