The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ALBATROSS
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More clues leading to the result ALBATROSS
- Great winger’s successful long shot?
- Exploit golfing handicap
- One rarely seen on course, wandering bird?
- Sailor crossing lake saw tortoises avoiding the odd bird
- Undesirable neckwear having a bad result around club, right?
- A large agitated rat caught by person in charge of bird
- Score from ace cricketer getting runs in defeat
- High-flyer from Scotland primarily traverses region there
- Bird in brass – a lot manufactured
- Defined by ‘flipping raucous sort’, a black bird
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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 = albatross.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ALBATROSS mean?
ALBATROSS noun- Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
- Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as puffins.
- A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole, except a par 3 hole.
- A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.