Clues for the word "PELICAN"
We've had 86 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 112 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 27, 2025.
Definition of pelican
- n. - Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.
- n. - A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
Referring Clues
- Big-billed bird
- Louisiana, the ___ State
- Bird that Alcatraz was named for
- A symbol of Louisiana
- ___ Island National Wildlife Refuge, in Florida
- It might present you with a big bill
- Louisiana state bird
- Bird in a John Grisham title
- Bird with a pouch
- It stores fish in a pouch
- Piscivorous flier
- Louisiana's state bird, e.g.
- Louisiana's state bird
- Bird in a Grisham title
- Louisiana (with "state")
- Symbol of Louisiana
- Web-footed, fish-eating bird
- Pouched animal
- Louisiana license plate image
- Louisiana symbol
- Louisiana bird
- The brown one is Louisiana's state bird
- Avian bigmouth
- Bird with a big bill
- Large-billed bird
- Aquatic bird
- Creole State bird
- Large bird
- One with a large bill gets the Spanish into a dreadful panic
- It eats fish (possibly plaice, by the way)
- Creature imaginably crossed with a dog?
- Bird helping people to cross the road
- It involves a big bill for fish
- Its beak holds more than its belly can
- In extremes of passion, silly Celia gets the bird!
- Flier with a large bill for fish
- Bird with a big bill for fish
- Fish eater given fresh plaice at the Nag's Head
- A flier ("Big Bill") to help you across the road
- Fish-eating bird
- Bird with large pouched beak
- Bird crossing the road?
- Bird life depleted by 50% in a nut tree
- Bird with large beak
- Large bill here for a nut, about one pound
- Bird taking half of life to crack nut
- Airborne crossing?
- Sea bird
- This will face you with an enormous bill
- Kind of crossing made by Drake's ship
- Water bird in place abroad
- Bird wing's half breaking nut
- A politically correct line, perhaps, might get the bird?
- Long-billed aquatic bird
- Terrible panic about the Spanish bird
- Aquatic bird no longer in place
- Seabird having a large bill with a pouch for fish
- Bird article written in pencil, unwisely
- Bird finds nut with top (not bottom) eaten
- Bird, 51, cracked nut
- Fish eater digesting plaice at mid-morning
- Water bird
- As a flier, Alice crashed in outer Pakistan
- Ocean bird
- State bird of Louisiana
- Bird on LSU's seal
- Wharf bird
- Flier with a big bill for fish
- New Orleans player
- In place, perhaps, but it flaps about
- Web-toed wader
- Coastal bird
- Aquatic bird which gives Louisiana its nickname
- Prominent feature of Louisiana's state flag
- It has a big pouch
- NBA player since 2013
- Smoothie King Center NBAer
- Creature imaginably crossed with a dog?
- Bird with a massive bill
- Shorebird
- Pouched bird
- Large bird on Louisiana's state flag
- Flier's safe crossing
- Airborne crossing?
- Bird making light of crossing the road?
- Diver on Louisiana's state seal
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 27, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 05, 2025
- LA Times - January 12, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 13, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 22, 2023
- New York Times - November 15, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 15, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - June 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 24, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 23, 2023
- Daily Quick - March 17, 2023
- New York Times - March 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 09, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 13, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 25, 2022
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