The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 plus 6 letter word STORMY PETREL
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More clues leading to the result STORMY PETREL
- Morsel, pretty poor for an oceanic bird
- Bird chewed pretty morsel
- Bird demolished pretty morsel
- Bird almost replete, it’s suggested?
- Mostly err badly about favourite bird
- Bird‘s mostly pert, naughtily holding ends of robe
- and 17: Empty resort left abandoned as one of 24
- Pretty morsel prepared for Mother Carey’s chicken
- Tale about Mike, Harry, Peter — before long one starts trouble
- Morsel pretty poor for an oceanic bird
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The straight part
We know that "Mother Carey’s chicken" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case mother carey’s chicken = stormy petrel.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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