MARTLET (7)

Started by dohz

Museum has paintings by large bird (7)

def. "bird"
wordplay: MET ("Museum": Metropolitan Museum of Art) contains ART by L ("paintings" by "large")
wait, it's called "The Met" and not just "Met"? you peddle falsehoods

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12224 Museum has paintings by large bird (7) def. "bird"
wordplay: MET ("Museum": Metropolitan Museum of Art) contains ART by L ("paintings" by "large")
wait, it's called "The Met" and not just "Met"? you peddle falsehoods
bags 4
12217 In heraldry, a bird with a little target? (7) def: in heraldry, a bird

Target is a mart, so a tiny Target is a mart-let
Taargus 2
12219 Less than 1-foot bird mostly crafts partner some Lego nests in peak? (7) Less than 1-foot bird = silly def, that's what the ? is for (it's apparently depicted with no feet in heraldry because it never roosts, and 0<1)
Mostly crafts partner = ARTs
Some Lego = LEgo
ART+LE nests in mountain, i.e., Mt.
M(ARTs+LEgo)T
biocuriousgeorgie 0
12221 Headless sting to allow footless bird (7) (-s)MART+LET jovi_al 0
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