| ‘Auld Lang ___’ |
SYNE |
| ‘Call Me Maybe’ singer Carly ___ Jepsen [E] |
RAE |
| ‘Gimme ___! … What’s that spell? Ella!’ [E] |
ANE |
| ‘Hallow’ ending |
EEN |
| ‘I Like ___’ (’50s political slogan) |
IKE |
| ‘I ___ open this jar. Can you help, Daddy?’ [E] |
CANNOT |
| ‘The coolest kid in the universe’ [E] |
ELLA |
| ‘There ought to be ___’ |
ALAW |
| ‘Understood’ [S] |
IGETIT |
| ‘Waterfalls’ trio |
TLC |
| ‘___ Danger’ (Nickelodeon show) [E] |
HENRY |
| ‘___ was saying …’ [E] |
ASI |
| Air France fliers, once |
SSTS |
| Animal that’s cute, fuzzy, lazy and gray [E] |
KOALA |
| Bird that smokes and does vandalism? [E] |
ILLEGALEAGLE |
| Brickell whose band is the New Bohemians |
EDIE |
| Dislikes [S] |
HATES |
| Drinks that are alcoholic [S] |
ALES |
| Enjoys, as food [S] |
SAVORS |
| Everyone [S] |
ALL |
| Fearsome cat that spends moolah on Lamborghinis and mansions? [S] |
BUYINLION |
| Former ‘Come on down!’ announcer Johnny |
OLSON |
| Getting from ___ B |
ATO |
| Go off-script (sorry, Ella, it doesn’t mean ‘get more pounds’) |
ADLIB |
| Green paper that you pay with [E] |
CASH |
| Horse’s mesh protection against pests, maybe |
FLYNET |
| It may be parallel [E] |
LINE |
| Kid that can have a cellphone [S] |
TEEN |
| Kid who is ‘epic!’ [S] |
SID |
| Lake that sounds scary [E] |
ERIE |
| Like show horses’ feet |
SHOD |
| Like some dirt bike tracks [S] |
HILLY |
| Looks rudely |
LEERS |
| Make goo-goo eyes at |
OGLE |
| Marks that are lines [S] |
DASHES |
| Martens and McStuffins, for instance [S] |
DOCS |
| Me: ‘How about the clue ‘Used needles,’ Ella?’ Ella: ‘No, new needles. You have to use them because it affects the fabric more than you expect.’ |
SEWED |
| Monkey that eats curtains? [E] |
DRAPEAPE |
| Ninja Turtle that wears red, to his friends [S] |
RAPH |
| Olympic hurdler/bobsledder Jones |
LOLO |
| Palindromic Turkish title |
AGA |
| Parents ‘who do puzzled goodness’ [S] |
DADS |
| Piece that goes on the floor [S] |
TILE |
| Poker money |
ANTE |
| Pookums [E] |
DEARIE |
| Popular [E] |
FAMED |
| Quaint stores (you’d think, based on how they’re spelled) |
SHOPPES |
| Queen in Arendelle [E] |
ELSA |
| Rat-a-___ [E] |
TAT |
| Region with Legoland, informally [S] |
SOCAL |
| Remote control car part [S] |
AXLE |
| Scaly creature that likes to eat frosted sweets? [S] |
CUPCAKESNAKE |
| She was a princess ‘long ago’ [E] |
DIANA |
| Sid: ‘I’m not ___ years old anymore.’ Me: ‘No, I mean ___ as in ‘I ___ some food." |
ATE |
| Sinn ___ (Irish political movement) |
FEIN |
| Slow animal that grows wings and gets in your clothes? [E] |
MOTHSLOTH |
| Sneaky little animal [E] |
SLYFOX |
| Someone who might cook meatballs for you [S] |
CHEF |
| Something a toy poodle says [E] |
YIP |
| Something said in an ‘argument party’ [S] |
NOYOU |
| Something that people say in awe [E] |
OOOH |
| Sound of a punch [E] {I created this puzzle for Take Your Kids To Work Day in collaboration with my then-nine-year-old twins. Clues followed by an [S] were written by Sid, and clues followed by an [E] were written by Ella.} |
BIFF |
| Spike thrown in the road to stop robbers [S] |
CALTROP |
| Tag situations? [S] |
GOTCHAS |
| Teacher’s helper [E] |
AIDE |
| Tennis’s Arthur ___ Stadium |
ASHE |
| The ___ on the Shelf [S] |
ELF |
| There are 100 in a century (abbr.) [S] |
YRS |
| They make up stairs [E] |
STEPS |
| Toilet paper layer |
PLY |
| Turns evil or moldy [E] |
GOESBAD |
| Type of lizard in ‘Sing’ [E] |
IGUANA |
| Type of wild ‘kitty-kitty’ 🙂 [E] |
BOBCAT |
| Wants really badly [S] |
CRAVES |
| Water animal with flippers that makes barters 24/7? [S] |
DEALSEAL |
| Water drop sound [E] |
PLOP |
| ___ for ‘Ricky Bubwick’ (apparently a name that Sid just made up) |
RIS |
| ___ gin fizz |
SLOE |