Local Quiz

[xword addict]

Answer is the name of a bird
Could this be us in a muddle (3)
Rather a big victim (6)
Nothing is on fire (8)
Just the thing for a celebration (7)
Surely not - it should be green (8)
A water dweller with a land speed record (7)
A fish with top billing (8)

[cashier]

2 Osprey

[cashier]

3 Flamingo

[dannyk13]

2.Osprey.
3.Flamingo

[fiction-factory]

1 AUK? If bu us they mean UK?
If you have any more it may be worth numbering them

[aelmpvw]

4 bunting

[cashier]

5 redstart?

[cashier]

7 Starling

[fiction-factory]

So I think we just have number 6 left:

6. A water dweller with a land speed record (7)

[aelmpvw]

6 mallard

[fiction-factory]

D'oh- never thought of trains- just kept thinking of Donald Campbell

[aelmpvw]

i kept thinking of bolt :-)

[xword addict]

Thank you all very much
Finally I have two answers for another clue which is "possibly a cereal crop" wheatear or corn rake what do you think
Also "could this be us in a muddle" auk or ruc

[cashier]

I personally would go for auk. Never heard of a ruc as a bird.

[dannyk13]

Wheatear if 8. Corncrake is 9

[xword addict]

Thank you so much all answered now you all have brilliant minds x

[ProfessorMaisie]

Could this be us in a muddle - EMU
'this' EMU if 'us' would give EMUS (in BE = BEMUSE 'muddle')?

[MWG14]

A roc is, or was, a bird.

[cashier]

Roc doesn't fit the clue though.

[fiction-factory]

emu in bemused looksat least as good as auk to me. I suggested AUK initially but although there is a case for A+UK I'm not sure where muddle fits in

[cashier]

Muddle synonym for anagram?