To answer each clue below, the same two letters, in the same order, have been added to one of the words in an otherwise familiar phrase.

1. "Good Stykeeping Award"
2. Pamplona residents play baseball and drink too much.
3. Sub-atomic particle during the Great Flood
4. Gourmet ice cream in 2-pint containers
5. Feeling ill, simply put (numerically)
6. Uneasy feeling about charity for those in need

HINT:
The added letters are QU.

Answers:

1. Squeal of approval
2. The Basques are loaded.
3. Noah's quark
4. Fine quarts
5. Queasy as one, two, three
6. Qualms for the poor

Note: See also In Common - posted on 3-1-12.

Credit: NY Times Crossword
November 7, 1999
Brendan Emmett Quigley
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