Cryptic Seabird Quiz Answers

Below, are the answers to the cryptic clues identifying the twenty birds found on the sea or coast.

           

1. She is not off.       HERON

2. A silent ballet without water.      MUTE SWAN

3.  A tail-less cat cut through water.      MANX SHEARWATER

4. Replete spoil.      FULMAR

5.  Big hemisphere that goes underwater.      GREAT NORTHERN DIVER

6.  I have left the acquisition of a mesh.        GANNET   ( Ga(i)n net )

7.  Is this down to keep us warm at night?       EIDER

8. Bad weather fuel.          STORM PETREL

9. Young cat’s funeral gathering?      KITTIWAKE

10. Don’t blow out!       PUFFIN 

11. Circled with a quiet amorous partner.      RINGED PLOVER

12. Outsized meal for a predator.      OSPREY  (OS prey)

13.  A cat may sit here with means of flight.      LAPWING

14. All tied up?     KNOT

15. Environmentally friendly beach bagpipe player.   GREEN SANDPIPER

16. A ringlet on two compass points.      CURLEW  (Curl E.W.)

17. Not a smooth bird.      RUFF

18. Golf course legs?      GREENSHANK               

19. Pearl case fielder in the slips?       OYSTERCATCHER

20.  A nut case scores zero.        SHELDUCK

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