ANY BIRD WITH ENUM (3)

Started by quatrevingtneuf

Bird that can turn its head, and keep turning it, and turning it, and turning it, and tu—uh… uh-oh… um… uh… bird with its head broken off (3)

OWL ("Bird that can turn its head, and keep turning it, and ...") = [f]OWL ("bird with its head broken off")

Sometimes it's about giving a fair, succinct, and unambiguous clue. Sometimes it's about sending a message

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8000 Bird that can turn its head, and keep turning it, and turning it, and turning it, and tu—uh… uh-oh… um… uh… bird with its head broken off (3) OWL ("Bird that can turn its head, and keep turning it, and ...") = [f]OWL ("bird with its head broken off")

Sometimes it's about giving a fair, succinct, and unambiguous clue. Sometimes it's about sending a message
bags 2
8008 Booby is a kind of bird (3) TIT ddef

resubmitted this clue solely for the clue id get
dohz 2
7994 Brock captured a legendary bird (3) _ROC_ dohz 1
7997 Bird lost without direction (enum 3) (-n)EMU* summitwei 1
7999 A United Kingdom bird (3) A+UK dohz 1
8002 Creature that might fly in the night? Prune wings: taken as base (3) **INTERPRETATION 1**

"Creature that might fly" = def
"in _: taken as base" = connector indicating relationship between def and wp -- interpret "base" as in the NPL, meaning "the wordplay that the clue is written around" (yes i know this is tenuous shhh)
"the night" = THE NIGHT (fodder)
"_: prune wings" = hidden word indicator
= HEN

**INTERPRETATION 2**

"Creature that might fly in the night?" = def
"Prune wings: _" = remove first and last letters
"taken" = TAKEN
"_ as base" = anagram indicator ("base" as in "immoral, improper")
= KEA

**INTERPRETATION 3**

"Creature that might fly in the night?" = DEF
"Prune wings" = P_E
"taken as base" = _N
= PEN (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pen#Etymology_4)

**INTERPRETATION 4**

"Creature that might fly in the night?" = def
"Prune wings:" = "remove first and last letter"
"taken as base" = LOWLY
= OWL
Deusovi 1
7993 Orc battles legendary bird (3) ROC - Sus anagram of ORC TheNexinator 0
7995 Bird is regularly immoral (3) _M_O_A_

:honk:
dohz 0
8001 Bird down, from front to back (3) LOW, take L from front to back

phenomist 0
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