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The answer FLIES has 55 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of flies in various dictionaries:
noun - (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)
noun - two-winged insects characterized by active flight
noun - flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
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| Tsetses and gnats |
| Goes by jet |
| Goes American, perhaps |
| Shagged hits |
| Bluebottles and gnats |
| Parts of 24-Down |
| ''Lord of the ___'' |
| Aviates |
| Pests |
| Takes a jet |
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| Fruit types of these insects may be named for the fruit they infest, such as olives or cherries |
| Spiders catch them in their webs |
| William Golding: "Lord of the Dance" |
| "7 at one blow" referred to 7 of these killed by The Valiant Little Tailor |
| In catching trout, these insects have largely given way to decanter hooks with the same name |
| Possible subjects for an entomologist, or the fishing accessoryseen here. |
| Varieties of these insects include bee, soldier, flower, blow & fruit |
| In a fairy tale, The Brave Little Tailor boasted he killed 7 with one blow! The town thought he meant men; he meant these |
| Plague No. 4, they were everywhere, including in my soup! Waiter! |
| The 1496 book "Treatyse Of Fysshynge With An Angle" describes these stiil-used artificial "insect" lures |
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| Third person singular present tense of fly1. |
| (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains) |
| move or be hurled quickly through the air. |
| plural of fly noun |
| a fly noun |
| (of a bird, bat, or insect) move through the air using wings. |
| A one-horse hackney carriage. |
| Knowing and clever. |
| A flying insect of a large order characterized by a single pair of transparent wings and sucking (and often also piercing) mouthparts. Flies are of great importance as vectors of disease. |
| An attempt. |
| Flies description |
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| True flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek - di- "two", and pteron "wings". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced mechanosensory organs known as halteres, which act as high-speed sensors of rotational movement and allow dipterans to perform advanced aerobatics. Diptera is a large order containing an estimated 1,000,000 species including horse-flies, crane flies, hoverflies and others, although only about 125,000 species have been described.Flies have a mobile head, with a pair of large compound eyes, and mouthparts designed for piercing and sucking (mosquitoes, black flies and robber flies), or for lapping and sucking in the other groups. Their wing arrangement gives them great maneuverability in flight, and claws and pads on their feet enable them to cling to smooth surfaces. Flies undergo complete metamorphosis; the eggs are laid on the larval food-source and the larvae, which |