Small duck

The answer

SMEW

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

Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1953. 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.

• TEAL (38 uses in xd)
• HOODEDMERGANSER (1 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
• 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
• 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.

• Small bills - ONES, used 324 times
• Small songbird - WREN, used 265 times
• Small whirlpool - EDDY, used 139 times
• Small combo - TRIO, used 137 times
• Small salamander - NEWT, used 126 times
• Small brook - RILL, used 101 times

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