The (K) Clues Are for Kids

Created by Timothy E. Parker May 16, 2022

ACROSS 1. (K) Moving coal holders

5. (K) Red or Caspian thing

8. (K) “Quiet!”

12. Type of rug

13. (K) Young boy

14. (K) Choir voice

15. (K) Good place for chickens and cows

17. (K) Zipper or button alternative

18. (K) Bring to a definite conclusion

19. Mentally quick

20. (K) Indiana is a beautiful one

21. Bratty child

23. (K) Center of a Froot Loop

25. (K) Sycamore or ash

27. Tricycle rider

28. Word associated with “Humbug!”

31. Sound like dry leaves in the wind

33. Stick (to)

35. (K) “I haven’t graduated ___, but I will in May”

36. (K) Like very simple puzzles

38. “___ the Rainbow”

39. (K) Like a cupboard with nothing in it

40. (K) Open one’s eyes

41. You may wash your hands in it

44. “Why ___ long face?”

46. (K) Strike sharply, like knuckles on a desk

49. Lacking sufficient rainfall

50. In rapid-fire succession

52. Masked Batman nemesis

53. (K) Part of a dress or skirt

54. Bursting with excitement

55. Help a prankster pull a prank

56. (K) “Sure!”

57. Short note passed around the office

Down

1. Nickname for the Yanks’ Ruth

2. It was Persia until 1935

3. Most overly bookish

4. (K) ___ Jose

5. Type of shot in hockey

6. (K) Like the smell of a new garden

7. (K) Do very simple math

8. Wasteful speed in doing something

9. (K) Bone in your arm

10. RBIS or pts. per game

11. (K) Optimistic feeling

16. Run your little mouth off

20. (K) Thing with two runners

22. (K) Was introduced to for the first time

24. (K) Just fine

25. (K) Put forth an attempt

26. Regret

27. (K) One can run down your cheek

28. (K) Coffee or water

29. (K) “So what exactly ___ they doing?”

30. (K) The woman in the straw hat

32. (K) Tilt to the left or right

34. Garden digger

37. Small sofa

39. Fancy bathroom fixture

40. (K) One of 60 in a min.

41. “Open Sesame” speaker Ali

42. Woman born in Oman, most likely

43. ___ qua non

45. (K) Some butchers’ meats

47. Chemistry class model

48. (K) Type of stick for jumping

50. (K) A long way from outgoing

51. NFL QB Newton