Short-billed merganser

The answer

SMEW

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

Used 6 times across 3 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 2 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
• Merganser relative - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Saw-billed duck - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Short skirt - MINI, used 149 times
• Get ready, for short - PREP, used 123 times
• And others, for short - ETAL, used 111 times
• Short distance - STEP, used 100 times
• Shoulder muscle, for short - DELT, used 87 times
• Cut short - CROP, used 74 times

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