NY Times Crossword

February 7. 2021

Katie Hale and Christina Iverson

TODDLER TALK

 

The clues below can be answered in "toddler talk" - that is, replacing W for R in a word in a familiar phrase. For example, CHAT ABOUT PREGNANCY IN GYM CLASS would be LOCKER WOMB TALK.

 

1. Accept pay from Batman

2. Finish scooping out a big stir-fry

3. Something a cheese vendor might offer 

4. Puritan's goal in 17th-century Salem

5. What a stoned actor smoked during rehearsal 

6. Cause for celebration at a pachyderm sanctuary

7. Flirty move while doing a double axel?

8. Headline after the Yellowstone Caldera erupts

9. Beating the eggs at just the right second

Answers:

 

1. Take a Wayne check

2. Hit wok bottom

3. The wheel deal

4. Get witch quick

5. Weed between the lines

6. Elephant in the womb

7. Ice skating wink

8. The West is history

9. A calculated whisk