100% | MOOS | 4 | Q: "Did you hear about the cow that cried wolf?" A: "Fake ___!" (dad joke) |
36% | BREAD | 5 | "Have you heard about the superstar who owned a bakery? They called him ___ Pitt!" |
34% | DID | 3 | "___ You Hear About the Morgans?" 2009 comedy with Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker, with a question in the title |
34% | PARIS | 5 | "OMG! Did you hear that this French city of love is hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics!" |
33% | MOO | 3 | "What do you call a cow that plays a musical instrument? A ___-sician!" |
33% | FIRE | 4 | Did you know that the book "___ from Heaven" by Mary Renault is about 44a's childhood? |
32% | LOTION | 6 | "Did you hear about the poet who liked to dip his work in moisturizer? It was poetry in ___" |
32% | DID | 3 | "___ you hear the one about ... " (joke start) |
32% | SWAB | 4 | The Q-tip that you shove in your ear is a small one |
31% | ACUTE | 5 | Q: What did the complementary angle say to the other angle? A: You're looking ___ today! |
31% | YOU | 3 | "___ can't handle the truth!" phrase that you may hear in a courtroom drama |
30% | IRA | 3 | Man's name that becomes a country if you stick a Q on the end |
30% | HEYDIDDLEDIDDLE | 15 | First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon |
30% | ARGO | 4 | Film about a fake CIA mission that received the Best Picture Oscar for 2012 |
30% | WHOLE | 5 | "The truth, the ___ truth, and nothing but the truth!" phrase that you may hear in a courtroom drama |
29% | ART | 3 | "Have you heard about batik? It's a dyeing ___" (groaner) |
29% | ANY | 3 | "___ questions?" question to clarify doubts at the end of a lesson that you have probably heard from your teacher |
29% | SILENTSPRING | 12 | 44-Across book about the environmental harm done by pesticides that was a finalist for the 1963 National Book Award for Nonfiction (2 wds.) |
29% | ONE | 3 | "The ___ that got away" (what you may say about a former beau) |
28% | EVE | 3 | "Killing ___," TV show starring Sandra Oh that featured a cover of the Taylor Swift song "Look What You Made Me Do" |
28% | ROMAN | 5 | "How often do you think about the ___ Empire?" |
28% | HOW | 3 | "___ do you feel about that?" |
28% | LAUGH | 5 | (2/3) Do you hear his distinctive ___ that sounds like "ho ho ho"? |
28% | SONDHEIM | 8 | Composer who wrote, about crosswords, "A good clue can give you all the pleasures of being duped that a mystery story can" |
28% | AWAIT | 5 | Do nothing until you hear about, maybe |
28% | THIRST | 6 | The feeling that you need a drink |
27% | WAY | 3 | "That's the ___ to go!" (what you might say when someone does a great job) |
27% | NEWS | 4 | "Did you hear the ___?" |
27% | ERIE | 4 | Town in “That Thing You Do!” with the same name as a Great Lake |
27% | PLANET | 6 | "Kingdom of the ___ of the Apes," sci-fi film about a primate species that you can watch on the big screen in 2024 |