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Can anyone help solve this clue from a Wildlife Trust Quiz?.

p-potter | 09:42 Sun 01st May 2011 | Quizzes & Puzzles

15 Answers

Not nice thoughts about the Mallard who invade the feeding station.
The answers all contain the word bird or the name of a bird.

MoS Prize Crossword 1487

Daily Record Sat Crossword

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bibblebub

ruddy duck ??? (don't see a feeding station connection)

MarkRae

Do a Google search for "ruddy duck restaurant" - there's dozens of them. That's all I can think of...

p-potter

Question Author

Thanks MarkRae and bibblebub. I forgot to say the answer's (5, 5) but I hadn't thought of it being a restaurant name. If it had been' feeding stations' ruddy ducks might have been the answer.

factor-fiction

Does the clue say Mallard or Mallards? (If Mallard then it should say INVADES).
However neither would explain Ruddy Ducks. I don't think that can be right. Was the Mallard also a train?

p-potter

Question Author

Yes, a steam train, factor 30 , but I'm coming round to the idea that the answer is right because as you say mallard is used as a plural and it's not a very precise quiz.. In Scotland we don't have many restaurants called The Ruddy Duck and so I didn't think along these lines. Certaily its the best answer for the moment.

boxtops

I thought Mallard could be plural too (same way as sheep) in which case Ruddy Ducks is good.

tamborine

Fat Duck, restaurant ?

http://www.thefatduck.co.uk/

mike11111

The ruddy duck is blamed for the decrease in population of other breeds of duck by taking over their habitat. I guess this is the reference to feeding stations.

Prudie

How do you get Ruddy from any of this clue?

factor-fiction

Hi boxtops- I have only ever heard MALLARDS as the plural of mallard.
The clue may be imprecise.
Ruddy Ducks is probably right

boxtops

'cos ruddy's an alternative swear word to Bloody, prudie.

Prudie

I know boxy but that is a very very loose interpretation of not nice thoughts

factor-fiction

tambo- the answer is 5,5.
prudie- the 'ruddy' is the 'not nice thought'. Poor clue really- could be almost anything but there is a breed called Ruddy Duck

p-potter

Question Author

Mike 11111 has clinched it for 'ruddy ducks' Thanks all.

Prudie

Glad you have your answer although the RSPB website claims there are only 150 of these ducks left in UK after a culling programme because they bred with natural ducks, spoiling the line, nothing to do with pinching food.

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