Answer Key to
Wackie Wordies #42



1a       Just under the wire
1b       Teeny-bopper
1c       Love at first sight
1d       Standing ovation
1e       Splitting headache
1f       Tally-ho

2a       That's beside the point
2b       Better safe than sorry
2c       Balanced budget
2d       Till the end of time
2e       Dashed hopes
2f       Shape up or ship out

3a       Circular reasoning
3b       Sitting on top of the world
3c       Cancelled check
3d       The last round-up
3e       A Shot in the Dark
3f       Outnumbered Three to One

4a       Bottom of the ninth
4b       More often than not
4c       "Space Invaders"
4d       Little Big Horn
4e       The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
4f       Skinny-dipping

5a       Heat Wave
5b       Start of something big
5c       Upper (or high) income brackets
5d       Three square meals a day
5e       Close quarters
5f       Line up in alphabetical order

6a       All hands on deck
6b       Accident-prone
6c       Jaywalking
6d       Cyclones
6e       Flight of Fancy
6f       Side-splitting joke

7a       Open sesame
7b       Dipsy doodle
7c       Short shrift
7d       Teetotal
7e       Mixed emotions
7f       Chip off the old block




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