Crested bird
The crossword clue "Crested bird" is answered by JAY, a 3-letter entry. Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
JAY
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the JAY answer page.
Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 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.
- BLUEJAY (2 uses in xd)
- KINGFISHER (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for JAY
Every other clue in this collection answered by JAY, most used first.
- Blue bird - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Noisy bird - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Comic Leno - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Raucous bird - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
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- Big bird - EMU, used 212 times
- Extinct bird - MOA, used 176 times
- Australian bird - EMU, used 134 times
- Sea bird - ERN, used 133 times
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