Child's impractical birthday wish

The answer

PONY

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PONY answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PONY

Every other clue in this collection answered by PONY, most used first.

• Small horse - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• Shetland, for one - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Pay (up) - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Shetland. - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
• Yankee Doodle's mount - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Petting zoo animal - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Yankee Doodle's ride - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• "My Little ___" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Pay, with "up" - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Small equine - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Polo mount - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Polo participant - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Shot glass - 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.

• "You wish!" - ASIF, used 73 times
• "When You Wish ___ a Star" - UPON, used 43 times
• "Wish you __ here" - WERE, used 39 times
• In one's birthday suit - NUDE, used 31 times
• Birthday party dessert - CAKE, used 24 times
• "Child's play!" - EASY, used 24 times

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