OPPOSITES ATTRACT II
Credit: Boston Globe Crossword
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

The answer to each clue below will be a two-word phrase in which the two words are oxymorons.

1. A booby-trapped vault
2. Form used by a beginning shoemaker
3. Dirty carnival
4. Snazzy London apartment
5. Unusual village green
6. Daydream about the prairie
7. Thoroughly frightened Native American man (or craven Crow)
8. Cheating poker player's hand (or lyric from Messiah by Handel)

Answers:

1. Dangerous safe
2. First last
3. Foul fair
4. Sharp flat
5. Rare common
6. Plain fancy
7. Cowardly brave 
8. Crooked straight