BUILD A SNOWMAN: As we move down the puzzle, a SNOWMAN – an abominable SNOWMAN, that is – is being built at the front of the theme answers. We start with Y, then YE, then YET, then YETI.

One popular theory is that Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman/Yeti are both Gigantopithecus, a polar bear-sized ape native to southern Asia believed to have gone extinct 300,000 years ago.

The Indian Army claims to have spotted Yeti tracks in the Himalayas. ... Indian Army Claims it Found Mystery Snowman's Footprints. Published Apr 30, 2019 at 10:04 AM EDT.

Meet Yeti, the so-called abominable snowman that science yet again says is just a bear DNA analysis on purported "Yeti" specimens found they belonged to three kinds of bears and a dog.