Northern diving bird
The crossword clue "Northern diving bird" is answered by AUK, a 3-letter entry. Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1991. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AUK
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AUK answer page.
Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1991. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- MURRE (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for AUK
Every other clue in this collection answered by AUK, most used first.
- Diving bird - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
- Arctic bird - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
- Diving seabird - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Razor-billed bird - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Arctic diver - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Arctic diving bird - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Arctic seabird - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Penguin's cousin - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Razorbill - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
- Arctic sea bird - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Bering Sea bird - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Sea bird. - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
- Dovekie - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Puffin's cousin - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Puffin relative - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Black-and-white diver - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Puffin kin - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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