Crossword-Solution: WEKAS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WEKAS | anagram | ASKEW, WAKES |
We have 2 clues for the answer “WEKAS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Maori hens | 1 answer |
| Flightless birds | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WEKAS (5)
All the dogs are trained to hunt these birds, as they are a great torment, sucking eggs and killing chickens; but still I could not help feeling sorry when Fly, having disposed of the mother, returned to the flax-bush out of which he had started her, and killed several baby-wekas by successive taps of his paw.
Our host has turned several pheasants into this forest, but they increase very slowly on account of the wekas.
The fragments of our meal must have been a great boon to the colony of wekas who inhabit the island, for as they increase and multiply prodigiously their provisions must often fall short in so small a space.
Whilst I was drinking in all the glory and beauty before me, some of the others had been busy striking the tent, repacking the loads, very much lighter without the provisions; and we had one more excellent cup of tea before abandoning the encampment to the wekas, who must have breakfasted splendidly that morning.
The wekas or Maori hens are small, flightless birds, averaging when full grown about two and three-quarter pounds.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1983–1993).