Show Contrition Having Run Off With Leggy Bird Crossword Clue

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	noun • any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
	34%	7		Feather-brain needs help to catch leggy bird
	noun • a flighty scatterbrained simpleton • a bridgehead seized by airborne troops
	34%	11		Leggy wading bird that feeds mostly on insects
	noun • large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint

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The Guardian Cryptic19 Jul 2000	Across 12
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