Puzzling bird
The crossword clue "Puzzling bird" is answered by MERL, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MERL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MERL answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MERL
Every other clue in this collection answered by MERL, most used first.
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- Keyboardist Saunders - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
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