Straight Billed Game Bird Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 11, 2023

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	noun • Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks • a gunshot from a concealed location verb • hunt or shoot snipe • aim and shoot with great precision • attack in speech or writing
	39%	8		Includes the yellow-billed cuckoo and the black-billed cuckoo
	noun • a genus of Cuculidae containing cuckoos which live in the Americas (Coccyzus)
	39%	10		Species include the Short-billed Dowitcher and the Long-billed Dowitcher
	noun • shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

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New York Times13 Oct 2002	Across 92
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