The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SHREW
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More clues leading to the result SHREW
- Scold one that eats insects
- Vixen showing cunning endlessly
- Mouse-like creature playfully tamed?
- Vixen, cunning no end
- Mean-spirited woman takes hour in work with needle
- Share of lavish reward for Kate?
- Speech containing nothing sounding like regret for following 1
- Keep quiet about wife, she’s bad-tempered
- Nag mouse-like creature
- Mammal, foxy dropping tail
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What does SHREW mean?
SHREW noun- Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha).
- Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews (order Soricomorpha).
- An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold.
- To beshrew; to curse.