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

 

NY Times Crossword
January 13, 2008
Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke
BABY TALK

If the old frontier you and I don't remember is WEST WE FORGET, what about ................

1. Development of amnesia
2. Better half takes the stage
3. Merlin on an IMAX screen
4. Tush made of shuttle thread
5. Tapestry that's not feeling well 
6. Climate that's copy-protected by law
7. Stick one's foot in an alcoholic beverage
8. Rouse a beloved English Queen from sleep

Answers:

1. Memory wane
2. Wife goes on
3. Giant wizard
4. Weft behind
5. Sick weave
6. Patent weather
7. Toe the wine
8. Wake Victoria

AS ELMER FUDD WOULD SAY II
NY Times Crossword
February 11, 1996
Harvey Estes

If the IRS tax portion is ALL THE WAGE, what about .............

1. Marry a feisty lady
2. No matter how heavy
3. Where baby dragons come from
4. IRS' portion of your check, seemingly

Answers:

1. Wed hot mama
2. At any weight
3. Smoke-filled wombs
4. All the wage

ALL IN FUDD
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Bary Tunick

According to Elmer Fudd.................

1. What do you call a stir-fry gala?
2. What do you call summer cruisewear?
3. Which Wagner operas are for the birds?
4. What do you call bantering with Leno and Letterman?
5. What do Horatio Alger and Toto have in common?

Answers:

1. A wok festival
2. Whites of passage
3. The Wing Cycle
4.  Putting on the wits
5. Horatio Alger went from rags to riches. Toto gave wags to witches.

AS ELMER FUDD WOULD SAY I

Credit: NY Times Crossword
July 11, 2010

Ed Sessa

If Bugs Bunny is a pesky wabbit, what is

1. Someone who is very skinny

2. Almira Gulch with loads of money

3. What you do when you try a nasty-tasting mouth wash

4. What you do when you have to beat 100 eggs

5. Title of a biography of Road Runner's nemesis

Answers:

1. Thin as whale

2. Filthy witch

3. Gargle and wince

4. Take a big whisk

5. Life of Wile E.

CALLING ELMER FUDD

NY Times Crossword - Jan. 16, 2000

Fred Piscop

If Bugs Bunny is a pesky wabbit, and a fishwife is a wed snapper, what about ..............

1. Obstetrics

2. Expert bird doctors

3. They might be found in The Duke's closet

4. Declining a subscription to a satirical magazine

5. Caused by too much rich food

6. Putting on the clothes in the store after you buy them

7. Obese wrangler

Answers:

1. Womb service

2. Wing masters

3. Wayne coats

4. Waiving Mad

5. Weight hike

6. Wearing to go

7. Wide 'em cowboy