NY Times Crossword
May 26, 2016
Andrew Zhou

What do the following phrases have in common?

1. Vital signs
2. Taco bar
3. Quick tips
4. Onion ring
5. Lesser-played songs
6. Four-way stop

Answers:

If you shorten the first word of each phrase to a single letter, you get a familiar hyphenated expression:

1. V-sign
2. T-bar
3. Q-Tips
4. O-ring
5. B-sides
6. F-stop