THIRTEEN X TWO

The first two letters of the answers to the following clues form an interesting pattern. Can you determine what it is?

1. Sky blue

2. Basic unit of storage capacity in a computer

3. It's not going to happen (abbreviated)

4. Nerd

5. Numbers 2, 4, 6, and 8, for example

6. Oil, gas, or coal

7. 2/3 of a classic Pontiac

8. Years of angst

9. 2/3 of the taxman

10. 2/5 of a straight in poker

11. military assignment

12. 2/3 of a computer laugh

13. State postal abbreviation

Answers:

1. AZure

2. BYte

3. CX (cancel)

4. DWeeb

5. EVen

6. FUel

7. GTo

8. HS (high school)

9. IRs

10. JQ (jack, queen)

11. KP

12. LOl (laugh out loud)

13. MN

The letters of the alphabet are paired A-Z/ B-Y/ C-X..........MN. (The alphabet reads down the first column of letters and up the second.)