Saturday, September 19, 2015

__________ and __________ XVI

Credit: The Word's The Thing
Dr. Louis D. Appel

Each clue below can be answered with an expression in the form _____ and _____. For example, given the clue Popular English snack, the answer would be Fish and chips. The answers will be in alphabetical order.

1. Both intellect and physical strength
2. Crime similar to burglary
3. Angels and more angels
4. Very real, as a danger
5. Computer technique to move or copy text
6. Hard data, indisputable  information
7. The rat race, rushing around
8. What the police are sworn to enforce
9. Words of great surprise
10. Miner's tools
11. Go ballistic
12. Basic principle of economics
13. The Fourth Amendment protects against it
14. Like a good speech or sermon
15. Big to-do about something
16. Like a battle-scarred flag
17. Vertical and horizontal yarns in waving
18. Non-iron clothes
19. Lawless, like a frontier town
20. Entertain lavishly

Answers:

1. Brains and brawn
2. Breaking and entering
3. Cherubim and seraphim
4. Clear and present
5. Cut and paste
6. Facts and figures
7. Hustle and bustle
8. Law and order
9. Lo and behold
10. Pick and shovel
11. Rant and rave
12. Supply and demand
13. Search and seizure
14. Short and sweet
15. Song and dance
16. Tattered and torn
17. Warp and woof 
18. Wash and wear 
19. Wild and wooly
20. Wine and dine 


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