Diving bird
The crossword clue "Diving bird" is answered by SMEW, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1945. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SMEW
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SMEW answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1945. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- MURRE (5 uses in xd)
Other clues for SMEW
Every other clue in this collection answered by SMEW, most used first.
- Merganser - used 82 times, most recently in 2015
- Diving duck - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Fish-eating duck - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Old World duck - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
- Eurasian duck - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
- Small merganser - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
- Small duck - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- White-crested duck - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Duck. - used 9 times, most recently in 1996
- Eurasian diving duck - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Small Eurasian duck - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Merganser relative - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Saw-billed duck - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Short-billed merganser - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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.
- Wading bird - IBIS, used 194 times
- Extinct bird - DODO, used 158 times
- Diving bird - LOON, used 154 times
- Sea bird - ERNE, used 124 times
- Hawaii's state bird - NENE, used 104 times
- Graceful bird - SWAN, used 100 times
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