LOW PRESSURE
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Burzstyn and Barry Tunick  (#1-5)

The answers to the clues below will have something to do with weather.

1. Lost opportunity
2. Calm center
3. Purity criterion
4. Pass for now
5. Much ado about nothing
6. Good can come from adversity
7. Talk idly
8. Not feeling well
9. Confused
10. Diminish the impact of what someone has to say by saying it first

Answers:

1. Gone with the wind
2. Eye of the storm
3. The driven snow
4. Take a raincheck
5. Tempest in a teapot
6. Every cloud has a silver lining
7. Shoot the breeze
8. Under the weather
9. In a fog
10. Steal someone's thunder