Showing posts with label Horsing Around. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horsing Around. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2022

FAMOUS HORSES AND THEIR RIDERS III

Can you name the horse ridden by:

1. Annie Oakley
2. Don Quixote
3. Zorro 
4. Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke)
 
Answers:
 
1. Target
2. Rosinante 
3. Tornado 
4. Buck 

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

FAMOUS HORSES AND THEIR RIDERS II

Everyone knows that Trigger was Roy Rogers' horse and Silver the Lone Ranger's, but can you name the horse ridden by:

1. Paul Revere
2. Ulysses S. Grant
3. Napoleon
4. Belleropohon
5. Ichabod Crane
6. Hoss Cartwright
7. Wilbur Post
8. Gumby

Answers:

1. Brown Beauty
2. Cincinnatus
3. Marengo
4. Pegasus
5. Gunpowder
6. Chub
7. Mr. Ed
8. Pokey 

Credit: GAMES Magazine
May, 2001
David Cook
RIDING CROP

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

OUT OF THE HORSE'S MOUTH
Credit: LA Times Crossword
October 20. 2014
David W. Cromer (#1-3)

Each question below is asked by a famous horse and answered by its rider:

1."What is our favorite flatware made out of, Lone Ranger?"
2. "What does it take to succeed in Hollywood, Tonto?"
3. "What makes up my mane, Roy Rogers?"
4. "What's your favorite sport, Gene Autry?"
5. "What's your favorite desert, Hopalong?"

Answers:

1. "Sterling, Silver."
2. "Talent, Scout."
3. "Hair, Trigger."
4. "Boxing, Champion."
5. "Cake, Topper."

Saturday, November 24, 2012

HORSEPLAY
Credit: Chicago Tribune Crossword
Robert H. Wolfe

1. Postponement stub at a horse show
2. Negative horses
3. Horse-colored waterway
4. Horse's girlfriend
5. Barn for newlywed horses
6. City leader's horse
7.  A. A. Milne's horse

Answers:

1. Rein check
2. Neigh sayers 
3. Roan River
4. Mane squeeze
5. Bridle suite
6. Mare
7. Whinny the Pooh

Friday, June 3, 2011

FAMOUS HORSES AND THEIR RIDERS I

Can you name the horse ridden by:

1. The Lone Ranger
2. Tonto
3. Roy Rogers
4. Dale Evans
5. Pecos Bill
6. Gene Autry
7. Hopalong Cassidy
8. Robert E. Lee
9. Alexander the Great
10. The Cisco Kid
11. Tom Mix
12. Tex Ritter

Answers:

1. Silver
2. Scout
3. Trigger
4. Buttermilk
5. Widowmaker
6. Champion
7. Topper
8. Traveler
9. Bucephalus
10. Diablo
11. Tony
12. White Flash




Saturday, December 19, 2009

HORSING AROUND II

Each clue below can be answered with a phrase containing the word HORSE:

1. Assertion of a very hungry person
2. Corny cowboy movie
3. On good authority
4. Another issue entirely
5. Candidate who's a big surprise
6. "Wouldya just wait a minute?"
7. Condiment
8. Advice to recipients of presents
9. Marx Brothers' comedy/nonsense
10. Sudden leg cramp
11. Engine-rating unit
12. Fooling around/roughhousing
13. "I have nothing to wear!"
14. Podunk, for one
15. A loud, boisterous guffaw
16. Simple, logical thinking
17. Good luck charm
18. Support the losing side
19. To get carried away, preachy, or arrogant
20. Sleepy Hollow denizen
21. Don't look in its mouth.
22. Child's toy
23. Frame for cutting wood
24. Ancient gift bearing Greeks
25. Noted Sioux chief
26. Do things in illogical order
27. War, famine, pestilence, and death

Answers:

1. "I could eat a horse!"
2. Horse opera
3. From the horse's mouth
4. Horse of a different color
5. Dark horse
6. "Hold your horses!"
7. Horseradish
8. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
9. Horse Feathers
10. Charlie horse
11. Horsepower

12. Horseplay
13. Clothes horse
14. One-horse town
15. Horse laugh
16. Horse sense
17. Horseshoe
18. Back the wrong horse
19. Get on your (high) horse
20. Headless Horseman
21. Gifthorse
22. Hobbyhorse/Rocking horse
23. Sawhorse
24. Trojan Horse
25. Crazy Horse
26. Put the cart before the horse
27. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Sunday, April 5, 2009

HORSING AROUND I
Credit: LA Times Crossword - Feb. 12, 2006
Merl Reagle

If rivers, forests, and mineral wealth are natural racehorses, what about..........

1. Proper horse behavior when eating
2. Deliberately cause problems
3. Merry Christmas
4. Racehorse's nightmare
5. This interview is over.
6. Baby's hand game
7. Yiddish congratulations

HINTS:
1. stable
2. stirrup
3 Fillies
4. This jockey is WAY over the weight limit.
5. "I've answered my last question."
6. paddock

Answers:

1. Stable manners
2. Stirrup trouble
3. Fillies Navidad
4. Jockey Gleason
5. " No more equestrians!"
6. Paddock cake
7. Muzzle tov (Yiddish Mazel Tov - Congratulations)