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This Yorkshireman is baffled. The clue is 'Yorkshire heifer sounds curious'.
Only three letters and I have W?? - I have exhausted Chambers and The Web - anyone out there can help ?

WYE is a Yorkshire heifer (young cow ) usually up to three years old

(sounds like Why ( curious)

It can also be spelt WIE, dobbo.

Thank you Jazz Girl and Orson - I must invest in a good Dialect Dictionary as the new compiler for this puzzle is using a lot of such clues.
I still have two remaining which are stumping me :
Ryedale's watery source (3) I have no letters

Eclipse of the moon (5) ?n?a?

any help welcomed.

Dobbo, I often use the online Yorkshire dialect site http://www.viking.no/e/england/e-yorkshire_norse.htm#R

http://www.viking.no/e/england/e-yorkshire_norse.htm

This link might work

Ryedale's watery source could just be RYE (the river)

Eclipse /of the moon ..Lunar ?

Your first link worked for me, jazzy - thanks, I've bookmarked it!

Good to see you Chris ! I rarely post as there are quicker and more knowledgable solvers .
Although I was Wiltshire born and then moved to Dorset and now Surrey, I have Yorkshire roots way back in 1600's (Hampsthwaite, Birstwith, Darley, Otley .....) and have come across these dialect words in old wills.