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Crossword-Solution: AUK 3 letters, 203 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Auk n. A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the
family Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (/ Plautus)
impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and
Murre.

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Word Anagrams
AUK anagram AKU, KUA

We have 203 clues for the answer “AUK”

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A black-and-white seabird with short wings 1 answer
A great bird 1 answer
Alcidine shorebird 1 answer
Arctic Circle bird 1 answer
Arctic bird that, despite its name, swims quite gracefully 1 answer
Arctic bird, expert swimmer and diver. 1 answer
Avian rhyme of "hawk" 1 answer
Bering Sea diving bird 1 answer
Bird Eskimos eat. 1 answer
Bird of the North. 1 answer
Bird related to the puffin 1 answer
Bird resembling a penguin 1 answer
Bird that Byrd may have seen 1 answer
Bird that sounds like it should be native to New Zealand's largest city 1 answer
Bird whose name rhymes with that of another bird 1 answer
Black-and-white sea bird 1 answer
Certain diving bird 1 answer
Cold-climate diving bird 1 answer
Cold-water diver 1 answer
Cold-water diving bird 1 answer
Common puffin, e.g. 1 answer
Cousin of a puffin 1 answer
Cousin of the puffin. 1 answer
Cutie of a bird that resembles (but isn't closely related to) the penguin 1 answer
Diving bird of cold waters 1 answer
Diving bird of the Arctic 1 answer
Diving bird of the north. 1 answer
Diving cousin of a puffin 1 answer
Dovekie, for one 1 answer
Eskimo's feathered friend. 1 answer
Extinct "great" bird 1 answer
Fast-flapping flier 1 answer
Frigid-climate seabird 1 answer
Great ___ (extinct Canadian seabird) 1 answer
Great ___ (extinct bird) 1 answer
It uses its wings as paddles 1 answer
Knowledge Master Open mascot 1 answer
Look-alike of the penguin. 1 answer
Member of an Arctic colony 1 answer
Murrelet relative 1 answer
North Atlantic diver 1 answer
North Sea diver 1 answer
North Sea diving bird 1 answer
North sea bird 1 answer
Northern diver 1 answer
Northern diving seabird 1 answer
Northern shorebird 1 answer
Ocean-diving bird 1 answer
Pacific seabird 1 answer
Paddle-winged bird. 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with AUK (5)

When I meet a brutal looking fellow I often think that he and his type may soon be as extinct as the great auk.
The Stark Munro Letters J. Stark Munro 1995
The Orchid.] We seldom meet, when out to walk, Either the Orchid or the Auk; The Auk indeed is only known To dwellers in the Auktic zone, While Orchids can be found in legions, Within the equatorial regions.
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers Robert Williams Wood 1999
The graceful Orchid on its stalk, Resembles so the auk-ward Auk; 'T is plain we must some means discover, To tell the two from one another: The obvious difference, to be sure, Is merely one of temperature.
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers Robert Williams Wood 1999
How strange it is that a bird, under the form of a woodpecker, should prey on insects on the ground; that upland geese, which rarely or never swim, would possess webbed feet; that a thrush-like bird should dive and feed on sub-aquatic insects; and that a petrel should have the habits and structure fitting it for the life of an auk! and so in endless other cases.
On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1999
The modern enquirer will recognize, perhaps, the great auk which once abounded on the coast, but which is now extinct.
The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier Stephen Leacock 2003
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 279 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).