Saturday, September 12, 2015

__________ and __________ XV

Credit: The Word's The Thing
Dr. Louis D. Appel

Each clue below can be answered with an expression in the form _____ and _____. For example, given the clue More than could be expected, the answer would be Above and beyond. The answers will be in alphabetical order.

1. General ailments, as one gets older
2. Pulley system, fishing gear
3. Graduation duds
4. On the skids
5. Fluctuation, as of the tides
6. Honest, even-handed
7. Like some preaching
8. Fashionable transport, once
9. Relatives
10. Deli order of bread and salmon
11. Of no legal standing
12. Graduation music
13. Black and red, financially
14. Holy and sacrilegious
15. Weathered the test of time

Answers:

1. Aches and pains
2. Block and tackle
3. Cap and gown
4. Down and out
5. Ebb and flow
6. Fair and square
7. Fire and brimstone
8. Horse and buggy
9. Kith and kin
10. Lox and bagel
11. Null and void
12. Pomp and Circumstance
13. Profit and loss
14. Sacred and profane
15. Tried and true

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