Michael

Something about EGGS for "Animal crackers?" rubs me the wrong way. I get it -- eggs come from animals, and you crack an egg. But "Animal crackers?" implies either that the answer is a type of animal that cracks, or that "cracker" is a type of object and we're looking for the animal variety. The former would have an answer like "chick" -- that it cracks the egg from within as it hatches. But the answer is "eggs", and it seems like a stretch too far to call an egg a "cracker" just because we crack it. Like, you'd never clue a loaf of bread a "slicer" (e.g. "grainy slicer"), or a jar of pickles an "unscrewer" (e.g. "briny unscrewer"). So I just don't think an egg should be clued as a "cracker". The person who cracks an egg is a cracker. The egg is not a cracker.