NY Times Crossword

May 2, 2022

Erik Agard

 

The answers to the clues below are two-word phrases that follow a very unusual pattern. What are the answers and what is the pattern?

 

1. Like some fashion boots

2. Not in a million billion years

3. Be protective of, as a mother hen might

4. Utah National Monument sacred to Native Americans

 

Answers:

 

1. Thigh high

2. Never ever

3. Hover over

4. Bears Ears 

 

The pattern:

The second word of the phrase is the first word without the starting letter.