NY Times Crossword

November 9, 2021

Jennifer Lee and Victor Galson

 

The following clues are the beginning lines of poems by Ogden Nash. Can you finish the poems? Can you improve on the author's words - as shown in the answers?

1. God in his wisdom made the fly,

    And then forgot ........................

2. Tell me, O Octopus, I begs, 

    Is those things arms, .................

3. The cow is of the bovine ilk;

     One end is moo, .......................

 

4. The trouble with a kitten is that

    Eventually ................................. 

Answers:

 

1. ..... to tell us why.

2. ..... or is they legs?

3. ..... the other milk. 

4 ...... it becomes a cat.