Puffin kin

The answer

AUK

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AUK answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Northern diving bird - used 14 times, most recently in 2015
• 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

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Ostrich's kin - EMU, used 78 times
• Bro's kin - SIS, used 65 times
• Guitar's kin - UKE, used 53 times
• Caribou kin - ELK, used 51 times
• Ostrich kin - EMU, used 51 times
• Caribou's kin - ELK, used 45 times

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