YARDWORK
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Burzstyn and Barry Tunick

The following clues can be answered using expressions related, at least in simile or metaphor, to yardwork.

1. Take up stamp collecting, for example
2. Live for today.
3. Get a lot taller
4. Difficult project
5. Not letting bygones be bygones
6. Make suspicious
7. Equivocate

Answers:

1. Cultivate a hobby
2. Smell the roses
3. Grow like a weed
4. Tough row to hoe
5. Raking up the past
6. Plant seeds of doubt
7. Beat around the bush