CHIPS TO BLOCKS
Credit: Washington Post Crossword
Fred Piscop (#1-7)

The answer to each clue is a familiar name or phrase, with the name or one of the phrase words "all grown up."

1. Old potato morsel
2. Old pistol maker
3. Old essayist
4. Old newsroom worker
5. Old Rodgers and Hart musical
6. Butch Cassidy's partner
7. Old medic's gear
8. Old teenage infatuation

Answers:

1. French fish
2. Samuel Horse
3. Charles Sheep
4. Bear reporter
5. Pal Kangaroo
6. The Sundance Goat
7. First aid fox 
8. Dog love