Answer:

hen

Answer	Crossword Clue
HEN	Biddy
HEN	Layer
HEN	.. fruit

HEN	Female pheasant
HEN	Ex-egg, perhaps
HEN	Producer of 44A
HEN	Soup maker?
HEN	Coop biddy
HEN	Female octopus
HEN	Female lobster
HEN	Chanticleer's mate

HEN	Egg warmer
HEN	Coop member
HEN	Rural layer
HEN	Coop resident
HEN	Pullet
HEN	Grownup pullet
HEN	Brooding sort?
HEN	Coop dweller

HEN	Chick's mama
HEN	Brooding one
HEN	Hatchery resident
HEN	Chick watcher
HEN	House sitter?
HEN	Brooding female
HEN	Cornish ...
HEN	Grown-up pullet

HEN	Egg warmer?
HEN	"Big, fat" creature of rhyme
HEN	Brooding type?
HEN	Farm gal
HEN	Former pullet
HEN	Brooder?
HEN	Farm female
HEN	Barnyard layer

HEN	Coop layer
HEN	Egg producer
HEN	Kind of house or party
HEN	Multiple layer
HEN	Chick's mom

Crossword

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