PRETTY UGLY
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick

Each clue below can be answered by two words which are opposites or near opposites.

1. Someone you just met
2. Retain pocket coins
3. Not yet kaput
4. Acts the avenger
5. In progress out front
6. Typical work of fiction
7. Lost gift
8. What a coin might do in a magic act (with "to")

Answers:

1. Relative stranger
2. Keep change
3. Still running
4. Rights wrongs
5. Afoot ahead 
6. Traditional novel
7. Missing present
8. Appear to vanish