SPOONERISMS XXV

Wall Street Journal Crossword

December 3, 2020

Mike Shenk (#1-5)

Answer the first part of the clue and spoonerize it to answer the second part.

 

1. Police statistic - Ice box

2. Uniting - Eccentrics are slipping away

3. Unrefined petroleum - Roughly-made spring

4. Good luck flowers - Paramour stays or splits

5. Full price for a house - Strongbox made from pale hardwood 

6. Symbol of sturdy vigor - Metrical foot

Answers:

 

1. Crime rate - Rime crate

2. Closing ranks - Losing cranks

3. Crude oil - Rude coil

4. Clover leaves - Lover cleaves

5. Cash offer -  Ash coffer 

6. Oak tree - Trochee

 

Credit #6:

The Enigma 

April, 2021

LADY MONDEGREEN