The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word RAVEN
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More clues leading to the result RAVEN
- Bird that’s black and yellow, not caught
- Flighty type given note after party
- Name given to wild party bird
- Flier's welcome in armed service
- Black and yellow cape missing
- Bird feeding intravenously
- Enthuse over northern bird
- New party starts to hunt aggressively
- Bird‘s plucky, heading off north
- Yellow topped black
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The straight part
We know that "black" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case black = raven.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does RAVEN mean?
RAVEN noun- Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
- A jet-black colour.
- Of the color of the raven; jet-black
- Rapine; rapacity.
- Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
- To obtain or seize by violence.
- To devour with great eagerness.
- To prey on with rapacity.
- To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).