LA Times Crossword
May 27, 2020
Kurt Mengel and Jan-Michele Gianette

The answers to the clues below will have something in common. Can you determine what it is? #7 and 8 use the same first word.

1. It might be used to tune an instrument
2. Give up - Abandon a project (with it)
3. What you do when you block the sun
4. Barf - slangily
5. Attack verbally with hurtful words (with at)
6. How to decide who will kick off in football
7. Frighten
8. Ignore possible dangers

Answers:

1. Pitch pipe
2. Chuck it
3. Cast shadows
4. Hurl chunks
5. Fling insults
6. Toss a coin
7. Throw a scare into
8. Throw caution to the winds

The first words of each answer are, roughly, synonymous.