COULD YOU REWORD THAT, PLEASE?
Credit: NY Times Crossword
April 6, 2008
Daniel C. Bryant

The answer to each clue below is a clever homophonic phrase, but each is well into the bad pun range. Wordplay is fair play.

1. Tax break for Gumby
2. Blessing for a ship-board romance
3. Perhaps doesn't believe witty Rogers
4. Chess end-game maneuvers
5. Excavate in the white cliffs
6. Drab Oriental fabric
7. Clown's parade memoir

Answers:

1. Clayman exemption (Claim an exemption)
2. Sea love approval (Seal of approval)
3. May doubt a Will (Made out a will)
4. Key pawn moving (Keep on moving)
5. Mine Dover matter (Mind over matter)
6. Gray toile of China (Great Wall of China)
7. My Laughter Mile ( Mile after mile)