White-crested duck

The answer

SMEW

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

Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 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
• 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.

• Black-and-white cookie - OREO, used 272 times
• Pintail duck - SMEE, used 74 times
• River duck - TEAL, used 71 times
• Black-and-white treat - OREO, used 64 times
• White House staffer - AIDE, used 60 times
• Black-and-white whale - ORCA, used 55 times

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