The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PUFFIN
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More clues leading to the result PUFFIN
- Excessively complimentary review in flier
- Bird short of breath? Not good
- Bird breathin’ in short gasps
- Bird evidently short of breath, briefly
- Advertisement featured by flier
- Gasp over popular bird
- Bird, noisy, standing up in cage
- Flier, and advertisement with it
- Bird out of breath? No good!
- Advertising blurb in flier
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Bird" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bird = puffin.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PUFFIN mean?
PUFFIN noun- The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
- The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak.
- Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
- A puffball.