The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word GADFLY
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More clues leading to the result GADFLY
- Insect originally good at digging for lost young?
- Tribe sits on smart person seen as a pest
- Guard’s folly, regularly missing provocative pest
- Pleased to have left out smart, annoying individual
- Good lady cleverly circumvents female troublemaker
- Remove resin from lady's finger, could be very annoying
- Happily left out grasping, loud troublemaker
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What does GADFLY mean?
GADFLY noun- Any dipterous insect of the family Oestridae, commonly known as botflies.
- A horsefly: any of various species of fly, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals and sucking their blood.
- One who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant.
- One who merely irritates without making useful suggestions.
- A bloodsucker; a person who takes without giving back.