Daily Mail £1000 Crossword

[Jamjar74]

32d. A type of Small Sandpiper(5)

Could be STINT or STILT both birds, which do you think would be the better answer.

Thank you

[elliemay1]

seen as stilt

[elliemay1]

Stilt sandpiper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The stilt sandpiper (Calidris himantopus or Micropalama himantopus) is a small shorebird ; it bears some resemblance to the smaller calidrid sandpipers or "stints".

[Lie-in King]

I went with 'stiNt' as the Sun Exp tend to use Collins as their main reference & it's shown as -

"Any of various small sandpipers...",

whereas 'stiLt' is shown as -

"Any of several shore birds..."

[slaney]

Stint..defined as a small sandpiper
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stint
(A stilt is a wading bird..
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stilt

[dannyk13]

The Stilt Sandpiper is a member of the Sandpiper family

[elliemay1]

Yes, see post at 14.21.

[Mamyalynne]

I went 'Stint' for reasons given above.

[slaney]

Could be either I suppose - but as it fits the definition of stint in Collins and Chambers ( and Bradfords Crossword Solvers Dictionary under sandpiper), I would be inclined to go for that.

[factor-fiction]

I would go for STINT partly because they used STILT 3 weeks ago when they were asking for a more general term, but I think that in the circumstances the paper should accept both- unless it specifically says it uses Collins and will accept no alternatives

[Lie-in King]

ff - "Spellings and definitions are taken from the Collins English Dictionary..."

In the past, they've been good with allowing alternate spellings, however in this case I believe it's an alternate meaning, so will stick with 'stiNt'

[factor-fiction]

Thanks. My guess is that rather than annoy lots of their readers, they'll accept both

[Jamjar74]

Thank you are very much for your comments, at least it got the little grey cells going on a Sunday. After reading all your comments think I will go for STINT.

Thank you once again/