| Game bird, in Mallorcan restaurants it is usually served stuffed with finely chopped local sausage such as sobrassada and butifarrion (5) | 
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            | NZ island bird (5) | 
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            | Start to get queasy and be ill because of the game (5) | 
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            | Game-bird to show apprehension (5) | 
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            | Small game bird with a rounded body and short tail (5) | 
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            | Shrink creates worry with short question | 
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            | Be cowed by small bird (5) | 
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            | Small egg producer | 
            New York Times | 
            15 Feb 2025 | 
          
          
            | Small Old World game bird of the genus Coturnix (5) | 
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            | Just the bird to have cold feet? (5) | 
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            | Flinch; bird of partridge family (5) | 
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            | Bird that's similar to a pheasant | 
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            | Ground-dwelling bird (5) | 
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            | Game bird | 
            Mirror Quick | 
            26 Aug 2024 | 
          
          
            | Cower like a bird | 
            Mirror Cryptic | 
            26 Aug 2024 | 
          
          
            | Small partridge-like bird | 
            Mirror Tea Time | 
            14 Aug 2024 | 
          
          
            | How bird may be cowed (5) | 
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            | Game bird | 
            Mirror Quick | 
            08 Jul 2024 | 
          
          
            | Bird seen to cringe | 
            Mirror Cryptic | 
            08 Jul 2024 | 
          
          
            | Game-bird to show lack of spirit (5) | 
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            | A game bird | 
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            | Be cowed like a bird (5) | 
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            | Blench (5) | 
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            | This is the bird to tremble (5) | 
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            | Shrink from a harmless bird (5) | 
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            | Flinch like a hunted bird? (5) | 
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            | Get cold feet in game | 
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            | Bird in a bevy | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            23 Feb 2024 | 
          
          
            | Flinch though still game | 
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            | Small pheasant relative | 
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            | Writer briefly pens a flyer | 
            The Times Cryptic | 
            07 Feb 2024 | 
          
          
            | Small game bird having a rounded body (5) | 
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            | Small Old World game bird with long pointed wings | 
            Mirror Quiz | 
            29 Nov 2023 | 
          
          
            | Game bird; flinch | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            14 Aug 2023 | 
          
          
            | Some birds cower | 
            The Times Cryptic | 
            01 May 2023 | 
          
          
            | Small birds get cold feet  | 
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            | Game bird | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            06 Jun 2022 | 
          
          
            | Game bird that makes us shrink back with fear | 
            The Times Cryptic | 
            26 May 2022 | 
          
          
            | A covey of ______ | 
            Canadiana | 
            24 Jan 2022 | 
          
          
            | Game bird or chicken might do this  | 
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            | Pheasant relative | 
            Universal | 
            26 Nov 2021 | 
          
          
            | Partridge's cousin | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            17 Nov 2021 | 
          
          
            | A covey of ____ | 
            Canadiana | 
            01 Nov 2021 | 
          
          
            | Small game bird | 
            The Guardian Quick | 
            22 Oct 2021 | 
          
          
            | California state bird | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            17 Oct 2021 | 
          
          
            | California state bird | 
            The Washington Post | 
            17 Oct 2021 | 
          
          
            | Game bird | 
            The Times Concise | 
            23 Mar 2021 | 
          
          
            | Bird in a bevy | 
            Universal | 
            03 Jan 2021 | 
          
          
            | Old writer briefly covers a game  | 
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            | Pheasant cousin | 
            Newsday | 
            06 Dec 2020 | 
          
          
            | Partridge's kin | 
            Eugene Sheffer | 
            13 Nov 2020 | 
          
          
            | Pull back layer  | 
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            | Partridge's cousin | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            05 Feb 2020 | 
          
          
            | Old writer endlessly probed by a shrink | 
            The Telegraph Toughie | 
            13 Sep 2019 | 
          
          
            | Bird; show fear | 
            The Times Concise | 
            28 Jun 2019 | 
          
          
            | Shiver like a bird  | 
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            | Draw back in fear | 
            New York Times | 
            06 May 2018 | 
          
          
            | Flinch from game  | 
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            | Draw back in fear | 
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            | California's state bird | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            25 Jun 2017 | 
          
          
            | California's state bird | 
            The Washington Post | 
            25 Jun 2017 | 
          
          
            | Shrink bird  | 
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            | Bobwhite, e.g | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            18 Mar 2017 | 
          
          
            | Bobwhite, e.g | 
            The Washington Post | 
            18 Mar 2017 | 
          
          
            | California's state bird | 
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            | Bobwhite, e.g. | 
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            | Partridge relative | 
            Newsday | 
            20 Jul 2016 | 
          
          
            | Pull back in small game | 
            Irish Times Crosaire | 
            14 May 2016 | 
          
          
            | Small game bird | 
            Newsday | 
            16 Mar 2016 | 
          
          
            | Partridge's cousin | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            24 Dec 2015 | 
          
          
            | Game bird | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            29 Sep 2015 | 
          
          
            | Partridge cousin | 
            Newsday | 
            16 Jul 2015 | 
          
          
            | Pheasant kin | 
            Premier Sunday | 
            15 Mar 2015 | 
          
          
            | Partridge cousin | 
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            | Pheasant kin | 
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            | Partridge's cousin | 
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            | Bird — be a 17!  | 
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            | Bird in a bevy | 
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            | Draw back with alarm | 
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            | Bird in a covey | 
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            | Partridge family cousin | 
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            | Small game | 
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            | State bird of California | 
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            | Bevy member | 
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            | Cower | 
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            | Bobwhite, e.g. | 
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            | Bird served in posh restaurants | 
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            | Small game bird | 
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            | Bouquet : pheasants :: covey : ___ | 
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            | Small game bird | 
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            | Small game bird | 
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            | Bird in a covey | 
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            | California's state bird | 
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            | Small game bird | 
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            | Plump bird | 
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            | California's state bird | 
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            | Plump bird | 
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            | Draw back | 
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            | Covey member | 
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            | Partridge cousin | 
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            | Bird of the pheasant family | 
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            | Game bird | 
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            | Covey member | 
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            | Have cold feet | 
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            | Shrink with fear | 
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            | Small game bird | 
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            | Dying ___ (bloop hit, in baseball slang) | 
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            | One of a bevy | 
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            | Poultry delicacy | 
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            | Covey member | 
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            | Cower in fear | 
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            | Game bird | 
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            | Popular game bird | 
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            | Cringe | 
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            | Bobwhite | 
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            | Cower. | 
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            | Game birds. | 
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            | Game bird. | 
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            | Birds. | 
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            | Lose courage. | 
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