Gazelle, to a cheetah

The answer

PREY

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PREY

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

• Quarry - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
• Hunted animal - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Victim - used 54 times, most recently in 2023
• Mice, to owls - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Hunter's quarry - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• The hunted - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
• Fly, to a spider - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Mouse, to an owl - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Hunted - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Hunted one - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Hunter's target - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Flies, to spiders - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Predator's target - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Hunted animals - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Zebras, to lions - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Bird of ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Bird of __ (eagle or vulture) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Mice, to cats - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Rats, to cats - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Victimize, with "on" - 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.

• African gazelle - ADMI, used 21 times
• Persian gazelle - CORA, used 8 times

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