RHYMING RIDDLE ANSWERS CIX

The answers for each item in the clues will rhyme.

1. Ointment, Quiet, Fortune teller's map, Reservation

2. Gratify base desires, Military leader, Defamation, Wander

3. They make good neighbors, Past-Present-Future, Touch-Taste, Begins

4. Go on strike or look for a new job, Dang it!, What to do on Route 66, Distinction for top collegiate athletes - perhaps

5. Cash cow, Reckless way to play things, Desert made from cocoa and egg whites, Longest side of a right triangle

6. JPMorgan Chase executive - perhaps, Walter Cronkite was a great one, Crude carrier, Like some dungeons

7. Like machines that do jobs once done by people, In a state of complete confusion and disorder, Originating in a distant foreign country, In serial form 

8. Easily excitable, Widespread, Native language, Chilling symbol of polio

Answers:

1. Balm, Calm, Palm, Qualm 

2. Pander, Commander, Slander, Meander

3. Fences, Tenses, Senses, Commences

4. Hit the bricks, Fiddlesticks!, Get your kicks, First-round picks

5. Golden goose, Fast and loose, Chocolate mousse, Hypotenuse

6. Investment banker, News anchor, Oil tanker, Deeper and danker

7. Robotic, Chaotic, Exotic, Episodic

8. High-strung, Far-flung, Mother tongue, Iron lung