| Web-footed quacking bird ... or a verb that means to quickly lower your head to avoid getting hit by something |
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| What some people think this puzzle's image represents |
New York Times |
12 Nov 2025 |
| Quacking waterbird |
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| Merganser, e.g. (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
23 Oct 2025 |
| Batsman's score of zero (4) |
Mirror Classic |
31 Aug 2025 |
| Quacker |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Aug 2025 |
| Web-footed water bird that makes waves as the mascot for Anaheim's NHL team |
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| Avoid fight with Republican ousted by Democrat |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Aug 2025 |
| Bob down under eider (4) |
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| Scoter or wigeon, eg (4) |
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| This bird likes water |
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| Mallard gets not a single run (4) |
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| Web-footed swimming-bird (4) |
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| Rubber ___, shower time companion that squeaks and floats in your tub |
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| Nothing but a bird (4) |
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| Bob gets no runs (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
15 May 2025 |
| Maybe Donald or Bob? (4) |
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| A bird that quacks and swims. (4) |
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| Avoid |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 May 2025 |
| Cricket score round figure? |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 May 2025 |
| Aquatic bird |
Mirror Quick |
11 May 2025 |
| Bend down, getting no runs |
Mirror Cryptic |
10 May 2025 |
| California hockey pro |
USA Today Quick |
05 May 2025 |
| Water-fowl is nothing to a bat (4) |
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| Bob doesn't use chair, kneeling originally (4) |
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| Take evasive action |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Apr 2025 |
| Avoid |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Love bird |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Lemna is the watery ___weed (4) |
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| A bird has to take evasive action |
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| Keep your head down, darling (4) |
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| In cricket, what is it to score nothing before being dismissed? (4) |
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| Avoid |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Feb 2025 |
| One with bill for nothing |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Feb 2025 |
| Word repeated before "goose" to make a classic circle game where one taps heads and then runs to avoid getting caught |
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| Bend down, getting no runs (4) |
Mirror Cryptic |
05 Feb 2025 |
| Aquatic bird |
Mirror Quick |
05 Feb 2025 |
| Evade a score of 0 (4) |
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| Word repeated in a children's game |
New York Times |
23 Jan 2025 |
| Try to avoid getting the bird (4) |
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| Bird to get down suddenly |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
21 Jan 2025 |
| Sitting ___, title for a person who is defenseless like a motionless quacking bird |
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| Nothing to avoid (4) |
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| An aquatic bird to avoid? |
The Times Cryptic |
14 Jan 2025 |
| Avoid something floating on the water (4) |
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| Steer clear of Donald? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
17 Dec 2024 |
| Get down a" from this perhaps! (4) |
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| Pond denizen |
Eugene Sheffer |
02 Dec 2024 |
| ___, ___, goose! |
New York Times Mini |
29 Nov 2024 |
| Get bird to put head down (4) |
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| (Lame ["___ Soup"] |
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| (Lame ["?) Soup"] |
USA Today Quick |
20 Nov 2024 |
| Shun love |
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| Avoid worst innings |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
14 Nov 2024 |
| Bob down to avoid injury |
The Times Concise |
12 Nov 2024 |
| '___- Soup': for many, 1 Across's greatest film (4) |
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| Bob's bird (4) |
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| CBeebies show narrated by Roger Allam, Sarah & _ (4) |
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| 'Bob,' or is it 'blob'? (4) |
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| Lower one's head |
The Telegraph Mini |
19 Sep 2024 |
| Bob's "No Score" (4) |
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| Avoid a bumper perhaps, but be out without scoring (4) |
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| Type of waterbird (4) |
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| Donald, or Daffy, say (4) |
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| Quacker (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
05 Sep 2024 |
| Nothing floating on the lake (4) |
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| It means "take evasive action," love (4) |
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| Watch out for meat! |
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| Donald ___, Disney character (4) |
Puzzler |
21 Aug 2024 |
| Avoid a blow (4) |
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| Avoid love in the Midlands |
The Times Sunday Cryptic |
23 Jun 2024 |
| It's no score one can avoid (4) |
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| Love, but try to avoid (4) |
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| E.g. a mallard (4) |
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| A water-loving bird (4) |
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| Rubber ___, shower time companion that squeaks and floats in your tub |
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| Golden ___, out first ball in cricket (4) |
The Telegraph Mini |
14 May 2024 |
| Get down - from this perhaps! (4) |
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| Love: a term of endearment |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
27 Apr 2024 |
| A term for a zero score in cricket. (4) |
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| Film Donald and Daffy getting over-excited |
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| Quacking bird |
Newsday |
08 Apr 2024 |
| Donald or Daffy of cartoons |
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| Double _ , material for convertible hoods (4) |
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| "Quacking" swimmer |
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| ___, ___, goose (game) |
USA Today |
13 Mar 2024 |
| Evade an aquatic bird from Aylesbury? (4) |
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| Get down out of the way for mate of drake? (4) |
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| Get down out of the way for mate of 8? (4) |
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| Get down for mate of 8? (4) |
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| Female of drake (4) |
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| Get down, Drake! (4) |
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| Avoid ?upper-class' in description of current King |
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| Female waterfowl (4) |
Puzzler |
08 Feb 2024 |
| Suddenly lower oneself |
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| Avoid classic cartoon character Donald (4) |
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| Sitting ___, title for a person who is defenseless like a motionless quacking bird |
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| Pochard or wigeon, eg |
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| Evade Peking, for example (4) |
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| Quacking bird |
Mirror Tea Time |
30 Dec 2023 |
| Donald ___ (Disney Fowl) (4) |
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| ''Watch your head!'' |
Newsday |
26 Nov 2023 |
| The vegetarian will avoid it (4) |
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| Avoid nothing |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
08 Nov 2023 |
| You could get down from it |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Oct 2023 |
| Pond paddler |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Aug 2023 |
| Steer clear of 4 |
The Guardian Cryptic |
07 Jul 2023 |
| Avoid a very low score |
The Times Cryptic |
01 May 2023 |
| Avoid lowest cricket score |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Apr 2023 |
| No runs |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Feb 2023 |
| *Lame ___ (unsuccessful endeavor) |
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| Daffy ___, animated black-and-yellow bird seen in "Looney Tunes" who had human-like traits |
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| Quacking bird whose scientific name is Anatidae anseriformes |
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| Cricket score of zero |
The Times Concise |
06 Dec 2022 |
| Dip |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Dec 2022 |
| Eg, mallard |
The Times Concise |
26 Nov 2022 |
| Bob down; bird |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Nov 2022 |
| , 16 & 26 Avoided transporting Engels or Nietzsche, both in the end lacking fare |
The Telegraph Toughie |
04 Nov 2022 |
| Drake's partner? |
The Guardian Quick |
08 Aug 2022 |
| Quacking bird |
LA Times Daily |
06 Jun 2022 |
| Quacking bird |
The Washington Post |
06 Jun 2022 |
| Waterbird |
The Times Concise |
17 May 2022 |
| Nothing for cricketer to avoid |
The Times Cryptic |
02 May 2022 |
| Pond paddler |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Apr 2022 |
| Zhangcha ___ (tea-smoked dish) |
USA Today |
23 Mar 2022 |
| I'm a waterfowl who sleeps in a line with one eye open |
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| "Move your big head lower!" |
Family Time |
07 Feb 2022 |
| Zero meat |
The Times Cryptic |
05 Jan 2022 |
| "Howard the ___," 1986 Lea Thompson movie based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name |
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| Avoid a bird, drop head suddenly and plunge into water |
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| Bird that yells 'Aflac!' |
USA Today |
30 Jul 2021 |
| Dodge mandarin, for example |
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| Love bird |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 May 2021 |
| Avoid |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 May 2021 |
| The Fat ___, chef Heston Blumenthal's restaurant in Bray which has earned three Michelin Stars |
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| Lovebird — in cryptic terms? |
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| Donald of cartoons |
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| Avoid cricketing failure |
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| Donald is out for nothing in particular |
Irish Times Crosaire |
04 Jan 2021 |
| Avoid utter failure at the crease |
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| Avoid an incoming projectile, perhaps |
USA Today |
18 Dec 2020 |
| A farm bird |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Nov 2020 |
| Drake, e.g |
The Washington Post Sunday |
30 Aug 2020 |
| One with bill for nothing |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Jul 2020 |
| "The Wild ___," 1884 play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen |
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| Keep your head down for nothing |
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| Poultry and not a sausage for batsman? |
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| This hairstyle bends behind |
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| Eg, eider; get down |
The Times Concise |
26 Feb 2020 |
| No runs in cricket |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Dec 2019 |
| Avoid love |
The Telegraph Toughie |
28 Nov 2019 |
| Quacking bird |
Newsday |
19 Aug 2019 |
| Steer clear of Donald! |
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| You can get down from it |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Apr 2019 |
| Bird that quacks |
Newsday |
22 Apr 2019 |
| Pond paddler |
Thomas Joseph |
23 Mar 2019 |
| Cringe maybe as a cricketing failure |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Mar 2019 |
| You can get down from it |
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| A dead ____ |
Canadiana |
03 Dec 2018 |
| Avoid Peking, for example |
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| 'Get down!' |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Sep 2018 |
| Mandarin ___, colorful and exotic bird species |
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| Shout of warning |
Universal |
23 May 2018 |
| "Darkwing ___," animated show with a theme song that goes "Somewhere some villain schemes..." |
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| Aquatic bird |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Mar 2018 |
| Avoid meat |
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| "Get down!" |
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| Shout of warning |
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| Bird that can precede the starts of 20-, 30-, 36-, 46- and 52-Across |
The Washington Post |
05 Dec 2017 |
| Bird that can precede the starts of 20-, 30-, 36-, 46- and 52-Across |
LA Times Daily |
05 Dec 2017 |
| Immerse cloth in nothing |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Sep 2017 |
| Bird; zero score |
The Times Concise |
04 Sep 2017 |
| Bob promoted — so was Donald |
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| Avoid a beanball, maybe |
New York Times |
10 May 2017 |
| Bird often seen on cricket scoreboards |
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| A batting failure for a famous Donald |
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| Steer clear of love |
The Times Cryptic |
03 Jan 2017 |
| Steer clear of / love |
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| Bird that can precede the starts of 20-, 30-, 36-, 46- and 52-Across |
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| Avoid a beanball, maybe |
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| "Fore!" |
LA Times Daily |
29 Sep 2016 |
| Dip the French nobleman's keen starter |
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| Avoid a beanball |
USA Today |
07 Jul 2016 |
| Saskatchewan's _____ Lake |
Canadiana |
22 Feb 2016 |
| Avoid a beanball |
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| "Fore!" |
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| Down source |
USA Today |
07 Sep 2015 |
| Swimmer to escape score of zero |
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| Г%82"Watch your head!Г%82" |
Universal |
11 Jun 2015 |
| Try to avoid the lowest possible score |
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| Â"Watch your head!Â" |
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| Down source |
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| Dip into honey fudge |
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| Dismissal for 0, or maybe 20 |
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| Sound from the blind |
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| Evade |
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| "Watch your head!" |
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| "Watch your head!" |
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| Evade |
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| With 46-Across, "It ain't hard!" |
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| Quacking flier |
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| Quacker |
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| Quacker |
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| Quacker |
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| You might get down from one |
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| Mallard or teal |
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| Where to get down |
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| Donald of cartoons |
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| Avoid getting hit in the ring |
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| Where to get down |
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| Synonym for 16 Across |
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| Take evasive action |
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| Look out! |
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| Canvasback |
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| Cold ___ |
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| Donald or Howard |
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| Dodge |
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| Sitting ___ |
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| Linen or cotton cloth. |
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| Mallard. |
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| Donald. |
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| Lame ___. |
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| Eider or teal. |
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