Flightless bird
The crossword clue "Flightless bird" is answered by MOA, a 3-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1973. 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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Other clues for MOA
Every other clue in this collection answered by MOA, most used first.
- Extinct bird - used 176 times, most recently in 2026
- Bygone bird - used 43 times, most recently in 2024
- Extinct New Zealand bird - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Extinct flightless bird - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
- Extinct bird of New Zealand - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Wingless extinct bird - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
- Extinct New Zealander - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Kiwi's extinct cousin - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
- Extinct kiwi relative - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Kiwi's extinct kin - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Extinct kin of the kiwi - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Bygone big bird - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Extinct emu-like bird - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Bygone flightless bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Bygone New Zealand bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Outback bird - EMU, used 240 times
- Flightless bird - EMU, used 215 times
- Big bird - EMU, used 212 times
- Australian bird - EMU, used 134 times
- Sea bird - ERN, used 133 times
- Diving bird - AUK, used 105 times
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