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Fast Runner But Not A Flier Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is OSTRICH which was last seen in the Telegraph Cross Atlantic crossword.
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• a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)

• fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird

39%8A bird species that is an excellent runner but a weak flier
noun

• common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields

33%14Fast and relentless flier
noun

• a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas

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