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noun • grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill • Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) | ||||||||
40% | 7 | Bird in hosta, scratching wings and rolling in it | ||||||
noun • 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 | ||||||||
36% | 7 | Sprinkling it on scratching posts can encourage preferred scratching behavior | ||||||
noun • hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats | ||||||||
Wading Bird Is There Scratching Wings And Leg Crossword Clue
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HERON which was last seen in the Telegraph Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is:
HERON
Updated: January 7, 2025
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1 | "There ___ there there"
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18 Aug 2013 | New York Times / 18 Aug 2013 |
2 | Bird in hosta, scratching wings and rolling in it
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3 | Brown wading bird one missed initially? There he goes!
The Guardian Cryptic -
22 Aug 2014 | The Guardian Cryptic / 22 Aug 2014 |
4 | City about which Gertrude Stein said "There is no there there"
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20 Sep 2015 | New York Times / 20 Sep 2015 |
5 | Gertrude who wrote "There is no there there"
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6 | Sprinkling it on scratching posts can encourage preferred scratching behavior | |
7 | The act of gently scratching or tickling, especially lightly scratching the surface of something. |