Time to play the puzzle from NPR sunday on-air challenge!

Every answer today is a familiar three-word phrase in the form "___ and ___," in which the first and last words start with the letter S.

Ex. Free from danger and injury  -->  Safe and sound

 

    1.  What "wins the race" in a fable

    2.  What may break your bones, in a playground saying

    3.  Kind of pork at a Chinese restaurant

    4.  Like some perfume ads in a magazine

    5.  Nickname for the American flag

    6.  1970s sitcom starring Redd Foxx

    7.  Novel by Jane Austen

    8.  Spotlessly clean

    9.  Police action that may require a warrant

    10. Whiskey drink

    11.  One of America's third biggest book publishers

    12.  Pleasantly brief, like a good speech

 

 

Answer Keys

    1.  Slow and Steady

    2.  Sticks and Stones

    3.  Sweet and Sour

    4.  Scratch and Sniff

    5.  Stars and Stripes

    6.   Sanford and Son

    7.  Sense and Sensibility

    8.  Spic and Span   

    9.  Search and Seizure

    10.  Scotch and Soda or Seven and Seven

    11. Simon and Schuster

    12. Short and Sweet