DIG DEEPER II
Credit: Joseph Appel

The answers to the clues below are familiar two-word phrases in which both words start with the same letter.

1. Corn or cotton
2. Western wear
3. Dessert with cream cheese frosting
4. Movie-ending technique
5. Lab table item
6. Old-time kitchen storage unit
7. New nation, 2011
8. Provincetown is at its tip
9. "Sure, go ahead"
10. Mount Horeb vision in Exodus
11. Intense, short-term instruction
12. Differences arising from traditions
13. Sarcastic business law about competence
14. One who travels by plane often
15. Exclusive gathering
16. Road for romance
17. Orbital home
18. Severe trial metaphor
19. Those injured but carrying on
20. Mary Poppins' self-assessment

Answers:

1. Cash crop
2. Jean jacket
3. Carrot cake
4. Freeze-frame
5. Bunsen burner
6. Bread box
7. South Sudan
8. Cape Cod
9. "Feel free" 
10. Burning Bush 
11. Crash course
12. Culture clash 
13. Peter Principle 
14. Frequent flier 
15. Private party
16. Lovers' Lane 
17. Space Station 
18. Fiery furnace 
19. Walking wounded
20. Practically perfect

Credit: NY Times Crossword
October 9, 2014
Joel Fagliano (#1-9)