Halloween Crossword Puzzles

THURSDAY’S PUZZLE — Do you love puns? If not, it’s perfectly appropriate in this Halloween puzzle to shout “BOO.”

Quip crosswords, like quote crosswords, are rarely seen anymore. The success of such puzzles depends mostly on the quality of the quip or, in this case, riddle, and that’s entirely subjective. If today’s groaner is more trick than treat for you, find a child of the right age and see how much fun she has with it.

We expect great clues from David J. Kahn, and there are some dandy ones today. “Burning issue” is ASH. Even if you suspect it’s a pun, and there’s no question mark on the clue here, “issue” is a versatile word with several possibilities. If you watched TV in the 1960s, you know that a “Bottled spirit” is a GENIE. (This has nothing to do with today’s puzzle, but I fondly remember a recent Mark Diehl clue in a Los Angeles Times puzzle: “Old rubber” for ALADDIN.) We don’t need to know the names of Italian networks to get “Italian TV channel.” We just have to turn the dial to number TRE. “That issue is in the past” implies a corresponding phrase, and I’M OVER IT captures the exact same spirit.

The best clue, though, is for one of the shortest words, and it echoes the theme on Wednesday. “Club for swingers” is BAT, of course. What were you thinking?

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Halloween Quotes And Sayings

Need a laugh this morning? We’ve gathered some funny celebrity Halloween quotes and sayings to get you into the Halloween spirit! Celebs love Halloween too, as you can see from the Halloween quotes and sayings below.


Here are some of our favorites:

Rodney Dangerfield – “On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me!”

Erma Bombeck – “A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween”

George Carlin – “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”

Conan O’Brien – “This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.”

Loretta Lynn – “We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween.”

Henry David Thoreau - “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than sit on a crowded velvet cushion.”

Mark Twain - “Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody.”

Linus Van Pelt – “There are three things I’ve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and The Great Pumpkin.

River Phoenix – “Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.”

We’d love to hear any funny Halloween quotes and sayings that you know of!

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