MIRROR IMAGES IV

(Based on an idea from GAMES Magazine)

Answer the first clue in each pair with two words which, when read aloud in reverse order, will answer the second clue. Answers will include homophones and homogaphs.

Example:

Kiss a young lady....................................... BUSS a MISS

Arrive at the depot too late..........................MISS a BUS

1)

See if the postman has come

Send in a payment

2)

Get safely past a certain point

Corner a seabird

3)

Old expression for a whipping

Cover yourself after a day in the sun

4)

Hold a stone in your hand

Get a baby to sleep

5)

Official sanction

Marine animal agrees with you

6)

Discover the trail

Put gold nuggets on a scale

7)

Submit a request to your insurance

Retrieve a borrowed grating tool

8)

Guard a prison unit

Offer a timepiece at a price

9)

Estate auction

Seasickness

10)

What a hunter does

What a fisherman does

11)

Where you'd find a Philadelphia scholar

Where you'd find a Philadelphia criminal

Answers:

1. Check the mail/Mail the check

2. Turn the corner/Corner the tern

3. Tan your hide/Hide your tan

4. Cradle a rock/Rock a cradle

5. Seal of approval/Approval of a seal

6. Find the way/Weigh the find

7. File a claim/Claim a file

8. Watch a cell/Sell a watch

9. Sale of effects/Effects of a sail

10. Lies and waits/Waits and lies

11. Penn State/State pen