WEATHER WISE

The answers to the clues below will be weather-related expressions:

1. Big surprise
2. Quiet time preceding hectic or violent activity
3. To learn of something indirectly
4. One who is there for you in the good times, but not the bad
5. Be aware of what's going on and what's coming
6. They're watching you
7. Assess the hard reality of a situation
8. It's going to happen no matter what
9. Take risks, sometimes big ones, in an effort to accomplish something
10. Try to stop something bad from getting worse, usually without success

Answers:

1. Bolt from the blue
2. Calm before the storm
3. Get wind of
4. Fair-weather friend 
5. Know which way the wind blows
6. Under a cloud of suspicion
7. See things in the cold light of day
8. Come rain or come shine
9. Throw caution to the wind
10. Stem the tide

LOW PRESSURE
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Burzstyn and Barry Tunick  (#1-5)

The answers to the clues below will have something to do with weather.

1. Lost opportunity
2. Calm center
3. Purity criterion
4. Pass for now
5. Much ado about nothing
6. Good can come from adversity
7. Talk idly
8. Not feeling well
9. Confused
10. Diminish the impact of what someone has to say by saying it first

Answers:

1. Gone with the wind
2. Eye of the storm
3. The driven snow
4. Take a raincheck
5. Tempest in a teapot
6. Every cloud has a silver lining
7. Shoot the breeze
8. Under the weather
9. In a fog
10. Steal someone's thunder

WEATHER REPORT

Everybody talks about the weather, but here is your chance to do something about it---sort of. Can you think of 21 weather words to fill the following blanks?

1. shoot the __________ (chit-chat)
2. __________ cat (He's hip.)
3. on __________ nine
4. __________ of memories (a lot of them)
5. in a __________(confused)
6. __________ assets (You can't touch it.)
7. __________ of laughter
8. the __________ is on (pressure)
9. break the __________(start talking)
10. greased __________
11. __________-eyed (teary)
12. take a __________check
13. __________with praise (compliment)
14. a __________ fund
15. a __________ job (try to fool someone)
16. brain __________
17. __________ -side up
18. __________ in a teapot
19. steal someone's __________
20. __________ tour (very fast)
21. get __________ of (find out)

Answers:

1. breeze
2. cool
3. cloud
4. flood
5. fog
6. frozen
7. peals
8. heat
9. ice
10. lightning
11. misty
12. rain
13. shower
14. slush
15. snow
16. storm
17. sunny
18. tempest
19. thunder
20. whirlwind
21. wind