Ruffles feathers
The crossword clue "Ruffles feathers" is answered by IRKS, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
IRKS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IRKS answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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.
- Shed feathers - MOLT, used 53 times
- Lose feathers - MOLT, used 28 times
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- Ruffle some feathers - RILE, used 10 times
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