AS EASY AS ABA
Credit: GAMES Magazine
October, 1992
Ogden Porter (#1-5)

Each clue below leads to a three-letter answer in the form ABA. That is, the first and third letters are the same, and each letter is pronounced individually.

1. Distress signal
2. Highly explosive material
3. Studio that gave us The Wizard of Oz
4. Carrier to Stockholm
5. Title for a king or queen
6. Lawyers' organization
7. Doctors' organization
8. Popular movie format
9. Selling price option
10. Internet acronym for humor
11. "Bad" cholesterol

Answers:

1. SOS
2. TNT
3. MGM
4. SAS
5. H.R.H
6. ABA
7. AMA
8. DVD
9. OBO 
10. LOL 
11. LDL