The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word THRUSH
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result THRUSH
- Bird so hard to draw in river
- Songbird cut half of this fly
- Songbird's quiet after American's finished
- Bird heads for trees, having to fly
- One tweeting hard-hearted retweet about American hotel
- High-flying singer hurt badly by silence
- Bird not finishing off the fly
- . Heroin and speed found on tense singer
- Spotted flyer in extremely tough attack
- Bird in the cut grass
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What does THRUSH mean?
THRUSH noun- Any of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae, often with spotted underbellies such as the bluebird, nightingale, and American robin have.
- A female singer.
- A fungal infection caused by Candida, now especially of the vagina; candidiasis.