LA Times Crossword
March 16, 2018
Roland Huget

The first four clues below call for two answers each. The answers are related in a certain way. The answer to the fifth clue is a hint to the relationship. Can you answer the clues and discover how they are related?

1. Halts abruptly and a baseball position
2. Type of scenery and what quarterbacks often do
3. The first of three, for many and a basketball strategy
4. Cost of doing business and to move toward a destination
5. Fair play - idiomatically

Answers:

1. Stop short and shortstop
2. Backdrop and drop back
3. Breakfast and fast break
4. Overhead and head over
5. TURNABOUT (is fair play)