BEASTLY PUNS

Credit: NY Times Crossword
Sept. 25, 1994

Nancy Nicholson Joline

Each clue below can be answered by a two-word phrase, in which one word is the name of an animal, (or in one case, the name of a group of animals). Beware of homophones.

1. It travels fast

2. Creature not yet found

3. Meat, fruit, and honey

4. Cluck, crow, gobble, peep

5. Uninvited swine

6. Brown ruminant

7. Cuddly farm animal

8. Biting, chest-thumping, roaring

9. Scary rabbit farming or balding

Answers:

1. Bad gnus

2. Missing lynx

3. Bear essentials

4. Fowl language

5. Crashing boar

6. Chocolate moose

7. Embraceable ewe

8. Gorilla tactics

9. Hare raising or receding hare line