Big-billed bird
The crossword clue "Big-billed bird" is answered by PELICAN, a 7-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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PELICAN
7 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PELICAN answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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