Stray animal
The crossword clue "Stray animal" is answered by WAIF, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WAIF
Every other clue in this collection answered by WAIF, most used first.
- Homeless child - used 31 times, most recently in 2021
- Ragamuffin - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Street urchin - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Stray - used 12 times, most recently in 2008
- Gamin. - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Oliver Twist, for one - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Orphan - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Urchin - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Oliver Twist, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
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.
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- Hunted animal - PREY, used 59 times
- Stubborn animal - MULE, used 48 times
- Male animal - STAG, used 38 times
- Footless animal - APOD, used 35 times
- Forest animal - DEER, used 35 times
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