Merganser relative

The answer

SMEW

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Diving bird - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• 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
• 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.

• Rabbit relative - HARE, used 105 times
• Relative of etc. - ETAL, used 97 times
• Onion relative - LEEK, used 83 times
• Bassoon relative - OBOE, used 69 times
• Gull relative - TERN, used 51 times
• Frog relative - TOAD, used 46 times

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