Universal Crossword

September1, 2019

Doug Peterson 

The answers to the clues below will have something in common. Can you determine what it is?

 

1. It always points to the magnetic North Pole

 

2. "Just tell your hoodlum friend outside, you ain't got time to take a _____." 

3. President who said, "If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."

 

4. Wisconsin nickname

 

Answers:

 

1. Compass needle

2. Ride*

3. Harry Truman

4. The Badger state

 

What the answers have in common:

 

Each answer contains a synonym of "bother":

 

1. Needle

2. Ride*

3. Harry

4. Badger 

 

*From the song "Yakety Yak (don't talk back)" recorded in 1958 by The Coasters