Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
John’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?
John was piloting a plane behind a car but was never able to overtake it. Why?
What has to be broken before you can use it?
What is more useful when it is broken?
How can you write nineteen in a manner that if we take out one, it becomes twenty?
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?
You may enter, but you may not come in. I have space, but no room. I have keys, but open no lock. What am I?
What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see?
They came out at night, without being called.
They lost at day, without being stolen.
Who are they?
The day before the 1996 U.S. presidential election, the NYT Crossword contained the clue “Lead story in tomorrow’s newspaper,” the puzzle was built so that both electoral outcomes were correct answers, requiring 7 other clues to have dual responses.
