Outback bird
The crossword clue "Outback bird" is answered by EMU, a 3-letter entry. Used 240 times across 33 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 24 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
EMU
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EMU answer page.
Used 240 times across 33 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 24 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EMU
Every other clue in this collection answered by EMU, most used first.
- Flightless bird - used 215 times, most recently in 2026
- Big bird - used 212 times, most recently in 2026
- Australian bird - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
- Ostrich's cousin - used 128 times, most recently in 2022
- Aussie bird - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
- Outback runner - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
- Ostrich's kin - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Down Under bird - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- Ostrich cousin - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Ostrich kin - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
- Ostrich relative - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Grounded bird - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Big bird of Australia - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Ratite bird - used 33 times, most recently in 2017
- Running bird - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Flightless Australian bird - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Cassowary cousin - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
- Cassowary kin - used 29 times, most recently in 2022
- Fast-running bird - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Ostrichlike bird - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Large bird - used 26 times, most recently in 1996
- Australian runner - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Cassowary's cousin - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Earthbound bird - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Rhea relative - used 22 times, most recently in 2018
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Extinct bird - MOA, used 176 times
- Sea bird - ERN, used 133 times
- Diving bird - AUK, used 105 times
- Early bird? - EGG, used 102 times
- Mythical bird - ROC, used 96 times
- Sinbad's bird - ROC, used 82 times
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