NY Times Crossword
March 2, 1998
Jeremy Thomas Paine

Each clue below can be answered by two two-word phrases in which the first words of each phrase are opposites and the second words of each phrase are also opposites.

1)
Don'teave!
Leave!

2)
Become motionless out of fear
Lose it completely, with "have a"

3)
Angry and rash ones
Second thoughts at the altar

4)
[This pair is made up of compound words]

Conquer (as a fear)
Endure (as surgery)


Answers:

1)
Stay here!
Go away!

2)
Freeze up
Melt down

3)
Hot heads
Cold feet 

4)
Overcome
Undergo