The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word EARTHWORM
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More clues leading to the result EARTHWORM
- Ticklish case in infectious air? One going underground
- Cook or warm the fisherman’s bait?
- Pink thing getting warmer, hot after a thrashing
- Thrower – man mostly recollected as gardener’s friend
- Tunneller finds planet getting hot — Arctic cap’s close to zero
- The war room could supply tunneller with nothing to spare
- Creepy-crawly ruining the marrow
- Spineless creature harassed war hero clutching last of retirement money
- Creature is warm; hotter when exposed timelessly
- Burrowing creature met harrow, sadly
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What does EARTHWORM mean?
EARTHWORM noun- A worm that lives in the ground.
- A worm of the family Lumbricidae, or, more generally, of the suborder Lumbricina.
- A contemptible person; a groveller.