FLEXERS XXXVII

Answer each clue by matching it with one of the choices below. The choices are in random order. Wordplay is fair play.

1. Carol king
2. Average guy
3. Hitchhiker's duty
4. Fear of smoked salmon
5. Loves to solve, for example
6. Fly-by-night
7. Where snap decisions are made
8. Clever pick-up line
9. Sedan, Andes, Danes
10. Tool for getting out of a window

CHOICES:

a. Take the red-eye
b. Dean's list
c. Dow Jones
d. Wenceslas
e. Line of scrimmage
f. Thumbtacks
g. Escape key
h. Anagram
i. Acute angle
j. Dreadlocks

Answers:

1. d - Wenceslas (king is not capitalized)
2. c - Dow Jones
3. f - Thumbtacks (tax)
4. j - Dreadlocks (lox)
5. h - Anagram (loves/solve)
6. a - Take the red-eye
7. e - Line of scrimmage (football)
8. i - Acute angle
9. b- Dean's list (anagrams of Dean's)
10. g - Escape key (computer) 

Credit #9-10:
NY Times Crossword
July 13, 2016
Tom McCoy