The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word LOCUST
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More clues leading to the result LOCUST
- Place and time for a stripper of vegetation
- Bit of a plague place gets over time
- Copper’s in luck, finding stripper
- Grasshopper in place close to desert
- Stripper has old Charlie gripped by lecherous desire!
- Stripper unable to find way to entertain copper
- Destructive insect - place has tons
- Destructive insect found in silo, customarily
- Insect discovered in place close to encampment
- Officer in charge consumed by passion for stripper?
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The straight part
We know that "flying pest" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case flying pest = locust.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LOCUST mean?
LOCUST noun- Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria).
- A fruit or pod of the carob tree.
- Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree.
- A cicada.
- A Mainlander.
- To come in a swarm.