The Clue
Ones flying south for the winter (5 letter answer)
The Answer
GEESE
Tags
Notes
The answer GEESE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 80 puzzles.
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Brants
Cacklers
Followers
Graylags
Honkers
Sillies
Simpletons
Birds in a gaggle
Blind followers
Canadian transients
Embden and Toulouse
Embdens, e.g.
Fliers in V's
Formation fliers
Gaggle group
Gaggle members
Graylags or Embdens
Pond swimmers
Quinks or brants
Quinks, e.g.
"Silly" birds
Silly birds
Silly ones
Silly people
Silly persons
Skein formers
Swans' cousins
V formers
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Big V, maybe
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They come to a point while flying
Definition
GOOSE as a noun:
1. web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
2. (fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany) = a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
3. flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)