ODD COUPLES
NY Times Crossword
November 21, 1999
Patrick Berry

Each clue below can be answered with a familiar-sounding phrase in the form of _______ and _______. Wordplay is fair play.

1. Contents of a prison library
2. System of measuring cereal by weight
3. Unhip cabbie with a passenger
4. Complain at restaurants
5. The Merry Men in Sherwood Forest
6. Island in a Scottish bay
7. Mostly-empty spice rack
8. Emotional scene with actor Grant

Answers:

1. Prose and cons
2. Chex and balances
3. Fare and square
4. Whine and dine
5. Copse and robbers
6. Loch and key
7. Thyme and space
8. Hugh and cry