Each two-word answer to the clues below will have something in common that has to do with a family member. Can you determine what it is? (#8 - Wordplay is fair play.)

1. "You Bet Your Life" host
2. Score-settling competition
3. What a boy becomes, with A
4. Brains, figuratively
5. Dad in the backyard on the 4th of July
6. Big Wheel by Huffy
7. Often-visited store
8. Ancient Asian wonder goes commercial

Answers:

1. GROUCHO MARX
2. GRUDGE MATCH
3. GROWN MAN
4. GRAY MATTER
5. GRILL MASTER
6. GREEN MACHINE
7. GROCERY MARKET
8. GREAT MALL (OF CHINA)

The first word of each answer begins with GR, and the second with MA - giving GR and MA (GRANDMA).

Credit: LA Times Crossword
December 8, 2015
Ed Sessa
GRANDMA (#1-4)