Bird beaks
The crossword clue "Bird beaks" is answered by NIBS, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. 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
NIBS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NIBS answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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