S & S
Credit: LA Times Crossword - Oct. 5, 2009
Billie Truitt (#2-7)

How many familiar expressions can you think of in the form of _____ and _____, with both words beginning with S? There are at least eleven, starting with the name of this blog.

1. Sticks and stones
2. Safe and sound
3. Soup and salad
4. Short and sweet
5. Slip and slide
6. Stop and shop
7. Sugar and spice
8. Spic and span 
9. Sweet and sour
10. Safe and sane
11. Shoes and socks