NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle

January 12, 2025

Will Shortz 

 

Answer each clue with an expression in the form of _____ and _____  -  both words starting with S.

 

Ex. Free from danger

      Safe and sound 

 

1. How the race is won

2. Pork at a Chinese restaurant

3. Like some perfume ads in magazines

4. American flag

5. Spotlessly clean 

6. Like a good speech

7. Novel by Jane Austen

8. Fourth Amendment protection 

9. Original Crossword Puzzle publisher

10. What can break your bones in a schoolyard taunt 

 

Answers:

 

1. Slow and steady

2. Sweet and sour

3. Scratch and sniff

4. Stars and Stripes

5. Spick and span

6. Short and sweet

7. Sense and Sensibility

8. Search and seizure 

9. Simon and Schuster

10. Sticks and stones