Ominous bird

The answer

RAVEN

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RAVEN answer page.

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2013. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RAVEN

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

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• Poe bird - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Poe's bird - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
• Bird in a Poe poem - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Lustrous black - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
• Baltimore pro - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Bird. - used 10 times, most recently in 1970
• "Nevermore" speaker - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Glossy black - used 9 times, most recently in 1991
• Baltimore NFL player - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "Nevermore" sayer - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Poe's one-word bird - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Baltimore player - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Poe's black bird - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Baltimore footballer - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Talking bird of poetry - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

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.

• Bird-related - AVIAN, used 109 times
• Wading bird - EGRET, used 101 times
• "Snowy" bird - EGRET, used 80 times
• Wading bird - HERON, used 79 times
• Marsh bird - EGRET, used 63 times
• Origami bird - CRANE, used 63 times

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