GAMES/World of Puzzles
January, 2020
Laurie Eynon (#1-14)

Each of the answers to the clues below will have something in common.

1. Four-bagger
2. TV show, second time around
3. Airplane landing strip
4. Vice presidential hopeful
5. Wile E. Coyote's prey
6. Second-place contestant
7. Absolutely ordinary
8. Meadow where the Magna Carta was signed
9. With "the" - Bureaucratic buck-passing
10. Over an extended time period
11. Football ball carrier
12. Prohibition era smuggler
13. An initial advantage in undertaking something
14. The Kentucky Derby
15. What the common cold has to do
16. Seek a political position
17. Lose control - big time
18. Encompass the entire range of something
19. Continued spell of favorable outcomes
20. Talk incessantly
21. Continuing on - though exhausted
22. "Would you mind repeating that?"
23. Public pool posted warning
24. Destroy something, as a business, by making a series of bad decisions
25. Make it difficult for someone to win a game or contest by trying hard and playing or performing  well

Answers:

1. Home run
2. Rerun
3. Runway
4. Running mate
5. Roadrunner
6. Runner-up
7. Run-of-the-mill
8. Runnymede
9. Runaround
10. In the long run
11. Running back
12. Rum-runner
13. Running start
14. Run for the Roses
15. Run its course
16. Run for office
17. Run amok
18. Run the gamut
19. Run of good luck
20. Run your mouth
21. Running on empty
22. "Run that by me again."
23. "No running on deck"
24. Run into the ground
25. (Give someone a) Run for their money