Big bird of Australia

The answer

EMU

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

Used 34 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EMU

Every other clue in this collection answered by EMU, most used first.

• Outback bird - used 240 times, most recently in 2026
• Flightless bird - used 215 times, most recently in 2026
• Big bird - used 212 times, most recently in 2026
• Australian bird - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
• Ostrich's cousin - used 128 times, most recently in 2022
• Aussie bird - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
• Outback runner - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Ostrich's kin - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
• Down Under bird - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Ostrich cousin - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Grounded bird - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Ratite bird - used 33 times, most recently in 2017
• Running bird - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Flightless Australian bird - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Cassowary cousin - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
• Cassowary kin - used 29 times, most recently in 2022
• Fast-running bird - used 27 times, most recently in 2026

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