Clues for the word "REDSTART"
We've had 22 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 29 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on December 10, 2025.
Definition of redstart
- n. - A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.
- n. - An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.
Referring Clues
- Songbird
- Bird named for its colorful breast and tail
- Black-and-orange songbird
- Small songbird
- Flycatching warbler
- Fly-catching warbler
- Bird of colourful origin
- Communist beginning to get a bird
- Flighty type to get going when faced with sign of danger
- Dawn is ushered in by ruddy bird
- Revolutionary movement with wings?
- The bird is angry, to begin with
- Space traveller and model flier
- Liverpool FC's sharp winger
- Traders fancy Middle Eastern bird
- Variations of one colour found on drab bird
- Bird studied, we hear, at dawn
- Dealer upset to receive stone for songbird
- Maybe claret's acidic
- Get back to work when day breaks
- Conductor's indication is lacking authority, support and style at governmental unemployment scheme (8; 8)
- Flushed, at the beginning, a songbird
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - December 10, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 11, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 10, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 10, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 12, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 10, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 22, 2022
- Guardian Prize - December 23, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - December 10, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 20, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - July 11, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - June 19, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - March 25, 2016
- Guardian Prize - August 08, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - March 26, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - August 27, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - December 06, 2011
- Guardian Everyman - May 08, 2011
- Guardian Prize - March 12, 2011
- Guardian Quiptic - December 08, 2008
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 18, 2007
- Guardian Cryptic - May 15, 2007
- New York Times - July 15, 2006
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 12, 2005
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 12, 2004
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 14, 2004
- Guardian Cryptic - September 11, 2001
- New York Times - November 05, 2000