SANDS
Credit: LA Times Crossword
September 29, 2015
Mark Bickham (#1-4)

The answers to the clues below will have something in common.

1. Like some stickers
2. What little girls are made of
3. Terse
4. Old Glory
5. OK - as after a dangerous situation
6. Footwear
7. Like the tortoise in the fable
8. Pre-meal restaurant servings
9. The Fourth Amendment deals with it
10. Spotlessly clean
11. They can break you bones
12. Pressure, tension, drama, etc. (2)
13. Main idea
14. Plastic strip and water hose summer fun toy
15. Metaphor for time - and key to this puzzle

Answers:

1. Scratch and sniff
2. Sugar and spice
3. Short and sweet
4. Stars and Stripes
5. Safe and sound
6. Shoes and socks
7. Slow and steady
8. Soup and salad
9. Search and seizure
10. Spick and span
11. Sticks and stones
12. Stress and strain/Storm and stress
13. Sum and substance
14. Slip and slide
15. SANDS (S AND S)