| Take potshots (at) |
LA Times Daily |
18 Aug 2025 |
| Winger in attack (5) |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Aug 2025 |
| Criticize pettily |
LA Times Daily |
11 Aug 2025 |
| Long-billed bird |
Puzzler Backwords |
07 Aug 2025 |
| Marsh bird |
Family Time |
13 Jul 2025 |
| Cut tail off the bird |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
09 Jul 2025 |
| Shoot a bird from hiding (5) |
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| Criticise good purchase by sweetheart |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Jul 2025 |
| Make digs (5) |
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| Cutting pensions, to start with, be critical of (5) |
|
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| Shoot from cover (5) |
Mirror Classic |
19 Jun 2025 |
| Shoot a pin-up in two ways (5) |
|
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| Throw barbs (at) |
Newsday |
13 Jun 2025 |
| Take potshots (at) |
Newsday |
11 Jun 2025 |
| A bird of marshes and river banks, with a long straight bill (5) |
|
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| Medium-sized wading bird with a long straight bill (5) |
Mirror Quiz |
02 Jun 2025 |
| Use a gun and you'll get bird! (5) |
|
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| Shoot from a hidden position |
|
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| Knock back last of ninepins in the game (5) |
|
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| Pines away for bird (5) |
|
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| Make catty remarks |
Commuter |
24 May 2025 |
| Make nasty comments (5) |
Puzzler |
17 May 2025 |
| Criticize snarkily, with "at" |
New York Times Mini |
04 May 2025 |
| Verbal potshot |
|
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| Shoot a wading bird (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
14 Apr 2025 |
| Bird to shoot from cover (5) |
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| Wading bird that frequents marshes and wet meadows (5) |
|
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| Shoot a couple of Poles and some pipers (5) |
|
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| Take a long shot, literally |
|
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| A Humber model introduced in the 1930s (5) |
|
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| ___ hunt (prank quest) |
Universal |
29 Mar 2025 |
| Actor Wesley when snubbed gets to make a sly attack (5) |
|
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| Make a sly attack (5) |
|
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| Shoot from cover; wader |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
26 Mar 2025 |
| Attack keep - insurgents held back guards |
The Times Cryptic |
25 Mar 2025 |
| From concealment, shoot a bird |
|
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| Knock half of pensioners travelling |
|
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| Medium-sized wading bird with a long straight bill |
Mirror Quiz |
22 Mar 2025 |
| Criticise small amount of champagne |
|
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| Fire (at) from cover |
|
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| Criticise snidely |
|
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| Long-billed bird |
Puzzler Backwords |
10 Mar 2025 |
| A long-billed shore-bird |
|
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| Game to start the inspection off (5) |
|
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| Bird came out of pines (5) |
|
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| Shoot at a game bird (5) |
|
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| Bird akin to the woodcock (5) |
|
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| Wading bird; criticism |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
02 Feb 2025 |
| Wading bird of the genus Gallinago or related genera (5) |
|
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| Bird in the gutter? (5) |
|
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| ______ hunt (Fool's errand) |
|
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| Marshland wading bird (5) |
|
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| Make a last-moment eBay bid |
Newsday |
05 Dec 2024 |
| Wading bird; verbal attack |
The Telegraph Plusword |
26 Nov 2024 |
| Bird comes out of the pines (5) |
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| Bird came out of the pines (5) |
|
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| Pen is bird (5) |
|
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| Sandpiper's relative |
LA Times Mini |
14 Oct 2024 |
| Nice shot, in hockey lingo |
|
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| Shoot a bird hiding in pines |
|
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| Make nasty comments (5) |
Puzzler |
03 Oct 2024 |
| Shoot on the sly |
|
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| Take a shot (at) |
Newsday |
14 Sep 2024 |
| Fire shots from hiding (5) |
|
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| Animal in a prank "hunt" |
USA Today |
12 Sep 2024 |
| Take potshots |
Commuter |
31 Aug 2024 |
| Take potshots |
Commuter |
20 Aug 2024 |
| Take potshots |
Commuter |
10 Aug 2024 |
| Long-billed bird |
Puzzler Backwords |
01 Jul 2024 |
| A verbal attack on a bird (5) |
|
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| Wading bird |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
13 Jun 2024 |
| Game bird of the sandpiper family (5) |
|
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| Wading bird in chill amid borders of sedge (5) |
|
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| Game bird of marshy areas |
|
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| Professor Severus -, Potions teacher in J K Rowling's Harry Potter stories (5) |
|
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| Take shots from a distance |
|
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| Fire bird (5) |
|
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| Dig (at) |
LA Times Daily |
28 Apr 2024 |
| From cover take shots at a bird (5) |
|
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| Bird; spine (anag.) (5) |
|
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| Shoot a bird |
|
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| A bird to pick off from cover (5) |
|
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| Take potshots |
Universal |
16 Mar 2024 |
| Bird; shoot from a hiding place |
|
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| Emulate Chris Kyle |
|
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| Shoot from cover; bird (5) |
|
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| Shoot out of sight |
|
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| Verbal attack; wading bird |
|
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| Make petty comment (5) |
|
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| Take pot shots at the bird (5) |
|
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| Bird related to the woodcock, with a long flexible bill |
Puzzler Backwords |
26 Jan 2024 |
| Shoot from hiding the bird (5) |
|
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| Make sly verbal attacks (5) |
|
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| Guardedly shoot wading bird (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
12 Nov 2023 |
| Marsh bird |
Premier Sunday |
22 Oct 2023 |
| Shoot from a hiding place |
The Times Concise |
28 Sep 2023 |
| Small grouse |
New York Times |
25 Aug 2023 |
| Verbal ambush |
Newsday |
25 Aug 2023 |
| Take potshots |
Universal |
21 Aug 2023 |
| Long-billed wading bird (anagram of "pines") |
|
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| Slender-billed marsh bird (Anagram of "pines") |
|
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| Toss insults (at) |
LA Times Daily |
13 Apr 2023 |
| Wading bird |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Apr 2023 |
| Wading bird |
Newsday |
26 Mar 2023 |
| Take potshots (at) |
Newsday |
07 Mar 2023 |
| Long-billed bird |
LA Times Daily |
24 Feb 2023 |
| Long-billed marsh bird |
LA Times Daily |
29 Nov 2022 |
| Take potshots (at) |
Newsday |
23 Nov 2022 |
| Long-billed marsh bird |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Nov 2022 |
| Make a snarky remark |
New York Times |
29 Oct 2022 |
| Take potshots (at) |
LA Times Daily |
16 Oct 2022 |
| Marsh bird |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Jul 2022 |
| Make verbal attacks |
Wall Street Journal |
28 May 2022 |
| Take potshots |
New York Times |
22 May 2022 |
| Criticise courage as president falls |
Irish Times Crosaire |
18 May 2022 |
| Bird with a bill much longer than its head |
USA Today |
10 May 2022 |
| Make cutting remarks |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Feb 2022 |
| Wading bird with a long bill |
USA Today |
30 Dec 2021 |
| Shoot from a concealed position |
The Guardian Quick |
07 Dec 2021 |
| Long-billed marsh bird |
USA Today |
28 Nov 2021 |
| A wing of _____ |
Canadiana |
01 Nov 2021 |
| Make petty criticisms |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Sep 2021 |
| Take potshots |
Newsday |
24 Aug 2021 |
| Marsh bird |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Apr 2021 |
| Harangue while hidden |
Newsday |
17 Apr 2021 |
| Hurl insults (at) |
The Washington Post |
14 Mar 2021 |
| Hurl insults (at) |
LA Times Daily |
14 Mar 2021 |
| Wading bird |
LA Times Daily |
26 Feb 2021 |
| Wading bird |
The Washington Post |
26 Feb 2021 |
| Attack with a crack |
Newsday |
13 Feb 2021 |
| Wading bird with a long, slender bill |
New York Times |
20 Jan 2021 |
| Shore bird |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Jan 2021 |
| Take potshots (at) |
Newsday |
10 Jan 2021 |
| Toss insults (at) |
LA Times Daily |
25 Dec 2020 |
| Toss insults (at) |
The Washington Post |
25 Dec 2020 |
| Marsh bird whose bill is much longer than its head |
USA Today |
13 Dec 2020 |
| Attack winger |
|
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| Marsh bird |
USA Today |
05 Nov 2020 |
| Make a last-moment eBay bid |
Newsday |
25 Oct 2020 |
| Make catty remarks from the side |
New York Times |
19 Oct 2020 |
| Slender-billed marsh bird |
USA Today |
20 Sep 2020 |
| Wading bird |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Sep 2020 |
| . Criticise cuts removing last source of economies |
|
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| Slender-billed wader |
Universal |
26 Aug 2020 |
| Criticize slyly, with "at" |
Universal |
22 Jul 2020 |
| Clip tail of aggressive bird |
|
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| Marsh bird |
Family Time |
14 Jun 2020 |
| Trim end of toe in waders |
|
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| Shoot from hiding |
|
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| Take potshots |
LA Times Daily |
21 Apr 2020 |
| Take potshots |
The Washington Post |
21 Apr 2020 |
| Tot is grabbed by wings of shore bird |
|
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| 13 Criticise cut, severe ultimately |
|
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| Criticise bargain with Europe, finally |
|
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| Shooter has no right to get bird |
|
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| Bird from east with legs aloft |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Nov 2019 |
| Attack anonymously |
Jonesin |
12 Nov 2019 |
| Make petty remarks |
The Washington Post Sunday |
06 Oct 2019 |
| Slender-billed marsh bird |
LA Times Daily |
01 Sep 2019 |
| Slender-billed marsh bird |
The Washington Post |
01 Sep 2019 |
| Trim English bird |
|
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| Wading bird with a long, slender bill |
|
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| Wading bird; shoot |
The Times Concise |
22 May 2019 |
| Wading bird with a long, slender bill |
|
|
| Shoot from a concealed spot |
USA Today |
13 Jan 2019 |
| Slender-billed marsh bird |
|
|
| Shoot from a concealed spot |
|
|
| Take potshots |
|
|
| Bird |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Nov 2018 |
| Shoot from cover |
The Times Concise |
27 Jul 2018 |
| Cut verbally |
Newsday |
06 Jul 2018 |
| Take a potshot |
Universal |
08 Jun 2018 |
| Slender-billed shorebird |
USA Today |
25 May 2018 |
| Shoot from a distance |
Universal |
05 Apr 2018 |
| Expect a lengthy bill for this attack |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 Feb 2018 |
| Wading bird |
|
|
| Take a potshot |
|
|
| Shoot from a distance |
|
|
| Slender-billed shorebird |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Nov 2017 |
| Take potshots |
Universal |
17 Oct 2017 |
| Dig |
New York Times |
16 Sep 2017 |
| 'One ___ doth tread upon another's heel': 'Hamlet' |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
08 Sep 2017 |
| Marsh bird |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Aug 2017 |
| Bargain on English bird |
|
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| Bird getting leg up in South East |
|
|
| Long-billed marsh bird |
Universal |
28 Jun 2017 |
| Take verbal potshots |
Universal |
19 Jun 2017 |
| Verbal criticism |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Apr 2017 |
| Take potshots |
USA Today |
29 Mar 2017 |
| Long-billed marsh bird |
Jonesin |
21 Mar 2017 |
| Straight-billed wetlands bird |
Universal |
09 Jan 2017 |
| Fire from cover; bird |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Jan 2017 |
| Dig |
|
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| Marsh bird |
|
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| Take verbal potshots |
|
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| Take potshots |
|
|
| Straight-billed wetlands bird |
|
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| Long-billed marsh bird |
|
|
| Shoot like Chris Kyle |
USA Today |
24 Dec 2016 |
| Take potshots |
Newsday |
11 Dec 2016 |
| Wading bird akin to the woodcock |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
09 Oct 2016 |
| Turning over during sleep; insomnious? |
|
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| Long-billed shorebird |
Universal |
08 Aug 2016 |
| One way to shoot game |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 May 2016 |
| Criticize sneakily |
LA Times Daily |
18 May 2016 |
| Discount store's last gamebird |
|
|
| Issue petty criticisms |
The Washington Post |
22 Apr 2016 |
| Attack from a concealed place |
Universal |
16 Mar 2016 |
| Make malicious remarks |
USA Today |
29 Feb 2016 |
| Attack from a blind, say |
New York Times |
10 Feb 2016 |
| Criticize sneakily |
|
|
| Attack from a blind, say |
|
|
| Take potshots |
|
|
| Shoot like Chris Kyle |
|
|
| Long-billed shorebird |
|
|
| Bird to be sly verbally |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Dec 2015 |
| Make nasty comments |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Dec 2015 |
| Potshot |
The Washington Post |
29 Nov 2015 |
| Slyly and persistently criticize |
Canadiana |
02 Nov 2015 |
| Marsh bird |
Universal |
08 Oct 2015 |
| Wetlands wader |
New York Times |
04 Sep 2015 |
| Make petty attacks |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Aug 2015 |
| Take a potshot |
New York Times |
15 Jun 2015 |
| Straight-billed game bird |
Universal |
01 Jun 2015 |
| Wading bird; shoot from concealment |
The Times Concise |
15 May 2015 |
| From a safe distance, shoot bird |
The Times Cryptic |
08 May 2015 |
| Make malicious remarks |
Universal |
04 Apr 2015 |
| Shoot at from cover |
USA Today |
08 Feb 2015 |
| Take a potshot |
|
|
| Wetlands wader |
|
|
| Make petty attacks |
|
|
| Take potshots (at) |
|
|
| Curlew cousin |
|
|
| Shoot at from cover |
|
|
| Take potshots |
|
|
| Make malicious remarks |
|
|
| Potshot |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
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| Straight-billed game bird |
|
|
| Cast aspersions |
|
|
| Make nasty comments |
|
|
| Long-billed wading bird |
|
|
| Shoot with great precision |
|
|
| Take potshots (at) |
|
|
| Prey in a mock hunt |
|
|
| Long-billed sandpiper |
|
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| Pick off the bird |
|
|
| Take potshots (at) |
|
|
| Bid at the last second, as on eBay |
|
|
| Shoot from cover |
|
|
| Prey in a bogus hunt |
|
|
| Slender-billed marsh dweller |
|
|
| Long-billed shorebird |
|
|
| Prey in a bird hunt |
|
|
| Long-billed marsh bird |
|
|
| Bird of the marshes |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
|
| Fools hunt it |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
|
| Sandpiper kin |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
|
| Shoot from hiding |
|
|
| Make nasty comments |
|
|
| Prey in a mock hunt |
|
|
| Shoot with great precision |
|
|
| Sandpiper relative |
|
|
| Take potshots (at) |
|
|
| Shoot from above |
|
|
| Outbid at the last second, as on eBay |
|
|
| Take potshots |
|
|
| Engage in petty criticism |
|
|
| Slender-billed game bird |
|
|
| Make malicious remarks |
|
|
| Curlew's cousin |
|
|
| Shoot from hiding |
|
|
| Long-billed bird |
|
|
| Make catty remarks |
|
|
| Attack from a distance |
|
|
| Carp (at) |
|
|
| Take a surprise shot at |
|
|
| Long-billed bird |
|
|
| Shoot from hiding |
|
|
| Cousin of a woodcock |
|
|
| Make nasty comments |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
|
| Long-billed game bird |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
|
| Long-billed shore bird |
|
|
| Criticize sneakily |
|
|
| Take potshots |
|
|
| Be deviously critical |
|
|
| Take potshots |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
|
| __ at (malign) |
|
|
| Relative of the sandpiper |
|
|
| Take potshots |
|
|
| Be deviously critical |
|
|
| Shoot using a scope, say |
New York Times |
07 Aug 2006 |
| Not attack head-on |
|
|
| Be uncharitable, in a way |
|
|
| Sandpiper cousin |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
|
| Shoot using a scope, say |
|
|
| Fire on from hiding |
|
|
| Criticize sneakily |
|
|
| Be uncharitable, in a way |
|
|
| Long-billed bird |
|
|
| Long-billed marsh bird |
|
|
| Take potshots |
|
|
| Straight-billed game bird |
|
|
| Assail |
|
|
| Straight-billed marsh bird |
|
|
| Take a shot (at) |
|
|
| Make nasty comments |
|
|
| Curlew's cousin |
|
|
| Sharp reply |
|
|
| Unexpected shot |
|
|
| Attack from a concealed place |
|
|
| Criticize sneakily |
|
|
| Long-billed bird |
|
|
| Criticize |
|
|
| Wetlands bird |
|
|
| Take potshots |
|
|
| Shoot from hiding |
|
|
| Sandpiper's cousin |
|
|
| Wetlands bird |
|
|
| Criticize anonymously |
|
|
| Shoot from hiding |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
|
| Make malicious remarks |
|
|
| Bushwhack |
|
|
| Attack anonymously |
|
|
| Straight-billed game bird |
|
|
| Criticize anonymously |
|
|
| Prey in a bird hunt |
|
|
| Gutter bird |
|
|
| Make malicious remarks |
|
|
| Throw barbs (at) |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
|
| Hide and shoot |
|
|
| Woodcock's cousin |
|
|
| Attack from a distance |
|
|
| Criticize |
|
|
| Sandpiper e.g. |
|
|
| Long-billed game bird |
|
|
| Shore bird |
|
|
| Curlew's cousin |
|
|
| Marsh bird |
|
|
| Make cutting remarks |
|
|
| Sandpiper's cousin |
|
|
| Criticize, with |
|
|
| Prey in a mock hunt |
|
|
| Slender-billed bird |
|
|
| Long-billed bird |
|
|
| Criticize slyly |
|
|
| Wading bird |
|
|
| Malign, with "at" |
|
|
| Petty criticism |
|
|
| Criticize, with "at" |
|
|
| Long-billed bird |
|
|
| Criticize snidely, with "at" |
|
|
| Game bird |
|
|
| Shoot from ambush |
|
|
| Dowitcher |
|
|
| Wading bird |
|
|
| Shoot from cover |
|
|
| Becassine |
|
|
| Take pot shots |
|
|
| Gossip maliciously |
|
|
| Woodcock's relative |
|
|
| Woodcock's kin |
|
|
| Bog bird |
|
|
| Take potshots at |
|
|
| Criticize slyly |
|
|
| Take pot shots at |
|
|
| Shore bird |
|
|
| Limicoline bird. |
|
|
| Birds. |
|
|
| Shore birds. |
|
|
| Relative of a woodcock. |
|
|
| Woodcock's relative. |
|
|
| Shore bird. |
|
|
| Take potshots at. |
|
|
| Long-billed, wading bird. |
|
|
| Shoot from above |
|
|
| Game bird of the marshes. |
|
|
| Take potshots |
|
|
| Marsh birds. |
|
|
| Cousins of the woodcock. |
|
|
| Wading-bird. |
|
|
| Bird related to the woodcock. |
|
|
| Long-billed bird. |
|
|
| Relative of the sandpiper. |
|
|
| Shoot from ambush. |
|
|
| Game bird |
|
|
| Dowitcher. |
|
|
| Wading bird. |
|
|
| Game bird. |
|
|
| Bird. |
|
|
| Wading birds. |
|
|
| Marsh denizen. |
|
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| Game birds. |
|
|
| Marsh bird. |
|
|