Word Partners / Hint

Many crossword puzzles have clues that reference word partnerships. These are generally joined by the word "and" such as "Companion of click" which could result in "point and click". The answers here will follow the same line. Some answers may be phrases that contain more than the words ---- and ----.

-1. a conventional law-abiding course
-2. help commit a crime
-3. more than expected
-4. rigidly adhered to without debate
-5. not at home
-6. a demand for money
-7. complete destruction
-8. among the living
-9. energetic people who initiate change
-10. a real close result in a race
-11. make a hasty cowardly retreat
-12. found to be reliable
-13. ordinary members of an organization
-14. clean or entirely new
-15. family
-16. honest and straightforward, as in business dealings
-17. arrogantly affecting to be powerful
-18. an exclamation to draw others attention to something
-19. be subservient to someone
-20. the crack of dawn

2. aid and abet

Good one manxman

13. rank and file

16 - fair and square

morning

8. Alive and well

4. Hard and fast

Bernie

1. straight and narrow

Excellent! You're all ready and able!

#8 could also be alive and kickin'

3. Over and above
14. Spick and span

5. out and about?

20. rise and shine

Flo and Koala, good answers. I also have above and beyond for #3

Gerry, not exactly what I'm looking for. The words I have start with b and e.

12. tried and true

10. neck and neck

19. beck and call

15. kith & kin

Nice solves!

I like your answers but I did had a different answer for #10 (nip and tuck) as well as #15 (flesh and blood). I never heard of kith and kin so "thanks" for the new wrinkle in my gray matter

kith & kin is an obsolete term. What, I wonder, does that say about me?

It means that someone taught you well

11. run and hide

7. rack and ruin

9. movers and shakers
17. high and mighty

18. Come and see?

20. Bright and early

All good!

Alternate answers...

11 - cut and run
18 - the older, more archaic version, lo and behold

Left a hint for the last one. A reference to coach robbers...

6. stand and deliver

Nice clean-up, Joan