Looney Tunes
About the Puzzle
I love the old Looney Tunes shorts, and I just think the titles are great. This puzzle highlights some of my favorite titles from shorts featuring my favorite characters. I was able to get five titles and make them interlock, which I'm very proud of. I have to admit that 14-Down doesn't really feature the same kind of joke as the others. That said, it's by far the most famous short in the puzzle and may count as reasonable trivia in its own right. The Wall Street Journal expressed interest in this theme but considered 20-Across unacceptable. I never had the time to rebuild the grid and I figured I might as well put it out there.
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Well done!
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Across
- 1 Not quite a duke
- 5 Sports org. whose fields have a 55-yard line
- 8 Let down
- 13 "Make thick my ____" (Lady Macbeth line)
- 15 Halloween decor
- 16 Floor
- 17 Family of languages that includes Swahili
- 18 LEB neighbor
- 19 Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly
- 20 Oscar-winning 1949 Pepé Le Pew short: "For ____ Reasons"
- 23 Goes belly-up
- 26 Opening Day pitcher, usually
- 27 Letters often by a red circle
- 28 Hyperbolic weight
- 30 Interim
- 36 Atlantic hours, Mar. to Nov.
- 37 Darns, perhaps
- 39 Musical Mann
- 40 Iconic orca
- 42 Roswell, NM sighting
- 43 Country whose time zone is 15 minutes ahead of India's
- 44 Snake oil, likely
- 45 ____ cum laude
- 47 Age
- 48 Red ones are rare
- 50 Backside
- 51 Red Wings on a scoreboard
- 52 Manner
- 54 1998 Foo Fighters single
- 56 1954 short that first paired Bugs Bunny with Taz
- 62 Answer to "Where were you the night of the murder?"
- 63 Barnyard sound
- 64 Harmonious
- 68 Jack Rabbit ____ ("Pulp Fiction" dance venue)
- 69 It might hitchhike on a hiker
- 70 Send a letter
- 71 "Ocean's Eleven" job
- 72 Digits on a W-2
- 73 Abbr. often shortened to its first letter
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- 1 Recede, as the tide
- 2 Pie ___ mode
- 3 "Arrested Development" narrator Howard
- 4 Oodles of
- 5 Soul patch locale
- 6 1949 debut of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote (respectively, one assumes)
- 7 "Yesterday came suddenly," e.g.
- 8 Take it easy
- 9 Arabian Peninsula nation
- 10 "Hold your horses!"
- 11 Bible book that follows Ezekiel alphabetically
- 12 Word before and after "to"
- 14 1953 Daffy short with a rhyming title, now in the National Film Registry
- 21 Dirección de Santo Domingo a San Juan
- 22 ____ culpa
- 23 Some are on a lark
- 24 On a roll
- 25 Coffee : Caffeine :: Gasoline : ____
- 29 Responsibility
- 31 1949 Tweety short presumably set in Monterey, CA
- 32 Bind
- 33 Stonewall
- 34 Not as distant
- 35 Smooth Italian treat
- 38 "____ Girls" (Rolling Stones album)
- 41 Soccer great Hamm
- 46 Common first word
- 49 "Brady Bunch" butcher
- 53 Sonnets have five per line
- 55 With 58-Down, king infamous for his many wives
- 56 Tiny amount
- 57 Fashion magazine
- 58 See 55-Down
- 59 They once ran DOS
- 60 Enumerate
- 61 Rhino's trademark
- 65 Actress Basinger
- 66 Letters after a 60-Down
- 67 Nay's opposite