SPOONERISMS I

Named after Reverend W. A. Spooner, Spoonerisms are expressions where the initial letters or sounds of two words are interchanged...........CHing SPricken instead of SPring CHicken, for example. Can you think of a Spoonerism based on the following clues?

Credit:
#1-6: LA Times Crossword
Oct. 23, 2011
Merl Reagle)

1. Good day's work for a termite

2. Where Mr. Franklin does his calculations

3. Small kitchen snoop

4. Your one-stop sinus shop

5. Fat Albert

6. "Greet" women sailor style

7. What an usher might say

8. Pay attention!

9. Morning ritual for many

10. 186,000 miles per second

11. None of that is true!

12. Primitive weapons

13. Farm workers and others

14. Using the remote

15. What you might be doing when setting up camp

16. Big, spotted, pushy cat

17. You didn't attend my Civil War seminar.

Answers:

1. Chewing the doors (Doing the chores)

2. Ben's mathroom (Men's bathroom)

3. Nosy little cook (Cozy little nook)

4. Nasal hut (Hazel nut)

5. Paunch lad (Launch pad)

6. Hoot from the ship (Shoot from the hip)

7. "Let me sew you to your sheet."

8. Hiss and leer (Listen and hear)

9. Shake a tower (Take a shower)

10. Lead of spite (Speed of light)

11. Lack of pies (Pack of lies)

12. Ears and sparrows (Spears and arrows)

13. Tons of soil (Sons of toil)

14. Chipping the flannel (Flipping the channel)

15. Fighting a liar (Lighting a fire)

16. Shoving leopard (Loving shepherd)

17. You hissed my mystery lecture. (You missed my history lecture.)