GAMES/World of Puzzles

August, 2026

Scott Erdman

 

I AM NOT AN ANIMAL

 

The answers to the following clues are all things and people that share names with animlas but are not animals. 

 

Ex. Expert (or cheater) at the poker table

Ans. CARD SHARK

 

1. Auto mechanic, in slang

2. Police informant

3. Device for breaking down barricades

4. Habitue of local watering holes

5. Frankfurter

6. Louisville Slugger, e.g.

7. Scripps word contest for kids

8. Carpenter's cutting support

9. Many a child in Dickens' novels

10. Pipe unclogger

11. One whose nose is always in a novel

12. Official decree from the Vatican

13. Inconsiderate land-straddling driver

14. Hotshot lawyer

15. Ball of lint under the bed

16. One singled out to take the blame

17. One outstanding in his field

18. It moves the cursor  

19. One whose bark is worse than his bite

20. Member of an all-Black post Civil War Army regiment  

 

Answers: 

 

1. Grease monkey

2. Stool pigeon

3. Battering ram

4. Barfly or lounge lizard

5. Hot dog  

6. Baseball bat

7. Spelling bee

8. Saw horse

9. Street urchin

10. Plumber's snake

11. Bookworm

12. Papal bull

13. Road hog

14. Legal eagle

15. Dust bunny

16. Scapegoat

17. Scarecrow

18. Computer mouse

19. Paper tiger

20. Buffalo soldier