Frightening bird grabbing rodent's tail Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Frightening bird grabbing rodent's tail featured in Telegraph Cryptic puzzle on September 30, 2025. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 9 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is STARTLING.

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40 Potential Answers:

RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% STARTLING Frightening bird grabbing rodent's tail (9) The Telegraph Cryptic Sep 30, 2025
7% RAT Long-tailed rodent (3)
7% DORMICE Bushy-tailed rodents (7) Thomas Joseph Aug 30, 2025
7% RATS Long-tailed rodents (4) Commuter Aug 19, 2025
6% ALARM Frighten (5) The Telegraph Quick Sep 23, 2025
6% SCARE Frighten (5) Commuter Aug 29, 2025
6% SCARY Frightening (5) LA Times Daily Aug 5, 2025
6% TITMICE Bird and rodents or just small birds (7)
5% GLOMONTO Grab hold of (8) Wall Street Journal Sep 27, 2025
5% SCAREDY *Easily frightened individual (7) Universal Sep 19, 2025

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