Golden-egg layer

The answer

GOOSE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GOOSE answer page.

Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2020. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for GOOSE

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

• Gaggle member - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Honking bird - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Silly one - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Gander's mate - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Silly person - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Silly sort - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "Silly" bird - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Simpleton - used 9 times, most recently in 2003
• Bird in a gaggle - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Ninny - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Waterbird - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Bird that honks - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Mother ___ - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Barnyard honker - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Duck, duck, ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Egg-shaped - OVATE, used 228 times
• Egg-shaped - OVOID, used 123 times
• "Golden Boy" playwright - ODETS, used 92 times
• Small egg - OVULE, used 73 times
• Golden Horde member - TATAR, used 61 times
• King with a golden touch - MIDAS, used 58 times

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