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Renowned old voyager gets the bird (5)

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drake

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'bird' is the definition.
(drake is a kind of bird)

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(Other definitions for drake that I've seen before include "Elizabethan circumnavigator" , "Male bird" , "Navigator" , "adventurer from Devon" , "world traveller" .)

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