Clues for the word "TERN"
We've had 175 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 702 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 13, 2026.
Definition of tern
- n. - Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.
- a. - Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.
- a. - That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves.
Referring Clues
- Cousin of a gull
- Arctic ___
- Graceful aquatic bird
- Bird on a beach
- Fork-tailed flier
- Relative of a gull
- Beach bird
- Graceful bird
- Seabird
- Gull-like bird
- Sea swallow
- Shorebird
- Relative of a sea gull
- Aquatic bird
- It has a forked tail
- Flier around a lighthouse
- Fork-tailed bird
- Shore sight
- Coastal predator
- Seabird with a forked tail
- Sea bird
- Bird with a forked tail
- Gull relative
- Coastal bird
- Shore flier
- Web-footed sea swallow
- Shore bird
- Small gull
- Slender gull
- "Sooty" bird
- Fork-tailed gull
- Little gull
- Gull kin
- Gull's cousin
- Forked-tail flier
- Gull friend
- Shorebird with a pointed beak
- Sea swallow, for example
- Sooty ___ (bird also known as a wideawake)
- Fork-tailed sea bird
- Beach sight
- Seagull relative
- Gull cousin
- Coastal flier
- Elegant seabird
- Member of the gull family
- Sort of seabird
- Migratory bird
- Skimmer relative
- Graceful seabird
- Bald eagle's cousin
- Flapper at the shore
- Sea eagle
- Bird over the waves
- Fork-tailed gull-like bird
- Certain seabird
- Bird on the beach, perhaps
- Marine bird
- Fork-tailed shore bird
- Ocean flyer
- Sea gull relative
- Forked-tailed flier
- Fork-tailed flyer
- Shorebird that sounds like a bend
- Slender-billed sea bird
- "... leave no ___ unstoned" (pun ending)
- Bird that migrates from the Arctic to Antarctica
- Migratory shorebird
- Arctic seabird
- Migratory minnow muncher
- Fork-tailed seabird
- Ocean bird
- Fork-tailed shorebird
- Arctic bird
- Seagull cousin
- Arctic or Antarctic fish-eater
- Sea flier
- Seagull's cousin
- Gull's kin
- Arctic flyer
- Seagull's kin
- Arctic flier
- 3-masted schooner
- Beach flier
- Swallow at sea
- Arctic ___ (pole-to-pole migrator)
- Coastal plunger
- Swallow of the sea
- Gull's relative
- Canvas-back kin
- Sea gull
- Coastal diver
- Slender-billed seabird
- Small seabird
- Slender shorebird
- Cousin of the gull
- Small, slender gull
- Arctic ___ (migrating bird)
- Forked-tail sea flier
- Marine flier
- Web-footed flier
- "One good ___ deserves another": birder's quip
- Beach eagle
- Relative of 20-Across
- Certain beach bird
- Fork-tailed beach bird
- Seagull kin
- Graceful gull
- Bird with a two-pointed tail
- Arctic-to-Antarctica migrating bird
- Migratory seabird
- Sea swallow, e.g.
- One of the waders
- Slender gull with a forked tail
- Small, slender seagull
- Bird found on all continents, including Antarctica
- Set of three
- Aquatic flier
- Gull
- Beach bird with a forked tail
- Fork-tailed fish eater
- Seabird that can be "sooty"
- Wading bird
- Seagull
- Small seabird with forked tail
- See 23
- International winger?
- Flier's revised rent
- Seabird related to the gull
- Noddy, e.g.
- Winged creature
- Flyer with a forked tail
- Fork-tailed relative of the gull
- See 1
- Seabird with forked tail
- Diving shorebird
- Sea bird, a small gull
- It's said to go the other way, which is up
- Bird related to the noddy
- Small bird
- Bird seen regularly in the briny
- Polar bird
- Aleutian wintering off Indonesia
- Gull in "westernized"
- Beach gull
- Flier #2
- Bird appearing regularly in the arena
- Arctic, avian creature
- "Leave no ___ unstoned" (jocular phrase)
- Arctic or Sooty ___
- Reportedly go off bird
- "Royal" seaside bird
- Shorebird with a forked tail
- Maternal bird?
- Bird seen in the afternoon?
- Can you hear it turn in the air?
- International flier?
- Diving bird
- Seabird whose tail is often forked
- Soarer by the shore
- Seabird within "water nymphs"
- Flier making a sound turn
- International winger?
- Bird with an annual 18,000-mile round-trip migration
- Cousin of a skimmer
- Arctic ___ (migratory bird)
- "Royal" bird
- Bird found on all seven continents
- Bald eagle's sea cousin
- Bird that makes the longest migration in the animal kingdom
- Arctic ___: bird that flies between poles
- Royal ___: seabird native to the Americas
- Slender shore gull
- Coastal flyer
- Web-footed bird
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 13, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 12, 2025
- LA Times - November 20, 2025
- LA Times - November 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 08, 2025
- New York Times - September 04, 2025
- Daily American - August 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 19, 2025
- LA Times - June 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 14, 2025
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