The clues below lead to words that can be matched up so that if you insert the word "and" between them and then spoonerize, you'll get a familiar phrase. Spoonerizing involves switching the initial consonant sounds, and perhaps changing the spelling, to create new words. For example, the clues "satisfy" and "tiny" would lead to the answers "sate and wee" which spoonerize into "wait and see".

-1. A house built of turf
-2. Coloring substances
-3. Sword material
-4. Certain
-5. Small storage shelter
-6. Starts suddenly aside from fright
-7. Fib
-8. A large, padded, protective glove
-9. Pear-shaped stringed instruments
-10. Inhabitants of the USS Enterprise [c---]
-11. Ckose by
-12. Storage container
-13. Rooster
-14. Baby fowl
-15. Bloodsucking parasitic arachnid
-16. Two-masted sailing vessel

-a. Skin eruption
-b. Garden tool
-c. Owners of patents or lands, e.g.
-d. Belonging to Winnie
-e. In what manner?
-f. Pluck a guitar's strings
-g. Irritates; vexes
-h. Concave vessel
-i. Meadow
-j. German river
-k. Sibilant sound
-l. Transport boat
-m. Waaaaay up [h---]
-n. Fathered
-o. English tea accompaniment
-p. Breaks suddenly into tiny pieces

7l. by and large

4a. pure and simple??

15n. sick and tired

8k - hit and miss

All good answers, but Manxman, you must change yours because otherwise, not all of the words will pair up. The "lie" part was correct.

7b. high and low

13/i lock and key

Both correct!

11 e - near & how = hear and now

6j. rise and shine

Yes to both!

5c. head and shoulders

Good one!

14/d pick and choose

Yes!

9p chutes and ladders

1h. soddy/bowl = body and soul

Well done!

2g. guys and dolls

Yes! There are only a few left, now. Need some hints?

3f. steel/pick = peel and stick
12. bin/scones = skin and bones

16l. ketch/ferry ~ fetch and carry

Great solves!

Only the one left now!

cry and hue

That was a tough one, Pandora. I thought "crew" was right but I couldn't come up with something for waaaay up that I could get to work with it. That's a new wrinkle for me.

good one Cue. I had the opposite problem. All I could think of for waaaay up was High but never came up with crew.

And I thought you were all just avoiding the inevitable.



Well done!

I admit to trying to get starfleet and vulcan to fit, however briefly.

I knew we'd see that smiling face!