RHYMING RIDDLE ANSWERS XCVI

The answers to each item in the clues will rhyme.

1. Contest with words like "reveille", Like some teas or sodas, Southern cuisine tidbit, Arm of the Mediterranean

2. Area of high and relatively level ground, Secretive, "Well done", Things as they are now condition

3. Where to get your Kix, Categorize simplistically, Receiving government assistance, Graduating from college - for one

4. Kindergarten activity, "Smack my helmet", How you can always reach me, Where people you despise can go

5. Basic facts - metaphorically, Offensive linemen's goals, They can access your private information, P.E. exercise staple

6. Buy - Fix up - Sell activity, , Napa Valley activity - perhaps, Swimming naked

7. Bacon and sausage name, 5:00 a.m. perhaps, Redeemed from hock, Smarts and muscles

8. Big name in pens and lighters in the 70's, Halloween option, Remote sound,Comic's routine 

9. Words like "motel", Celebrated mime, 1890-1910 style of art and architecture, Former Canadian Prime Minister

Answers:

1. Spelling bee, Caffeine-free, Black-eyed pea, Adriatic Sea

 

2. Plateau, Down low, Good show, Status quo

 

3. Cereal bowl, Pigeon-hole, On the dole, Worthy goal

 

4. Show and tell, Ring my bell, Call my cell, Straight to Hell

 

5. Brass tacks, Quarterback sacks, Computer hacks, Jumping jacks

 

6. House flipping, Wine sipping, Skinny dipping

 

7. Farmer John, Crack of dawn, Out of pawn, Brains and brawn

 

8. Bic, Trick, Click, Shtick

 

9. Portmanteau,  Marcel Marceau,  Art Nouveau, Pierre Trudeau

 

Credit:

9: Fred Piscop