Find rhymes for pairs of words below to form common phrases connected with '&'. For example: pairing words RACK and FLIGHT leads to black & white.

20 randomly-ordered clue words:

LEPER , MEET , PREY , KITE , DOUGH , CHEESY , SPARROW , HUE , SKULL , RAVINGS

WICK , TERROR , VAULT , COURT , SHACK , NOUN , THIRTY , GROAN , FREUD , DIAL

Please use clue numbers to label answers.

=1. Comprises a "spicy" combo
=2. Done hastily -- not revised or polished
=3. Comprises a weapon
=4. Experimenting -- until something clicks
=5. Many older financial institutions
=6. Comprises 24 hours
=7. Microsoft buzz-phrase (for new Windows versions)
=8. Sign of ecchymosis
=9. Non-binding, legally
=10. Brief or concise (often pleasantly so)

6. prey and kite = day & night

4. dial and terror = trial and error

2. wick and thirty = quick and dirty

8. shack and hue = black and blue

Great start, everyone.

flotsam, your rhyming words are correct, but each belongs to a different answer (one of which is #2).

9. skull and Freud = null and void

Correct

Bonus Hint for #7

Replace "Microsoft" with "Madison Avenue" and delete the remark about Windows, and the result would be an equivalent clue.

7. wick and cheesy = quick and easy

10. court and meet = short and sweet

Nice puzzle Helmer.

1. Vault & leper = salt & pepper

Leper & vault = pepper and salt - Nice puzzle Helmer

Bernie

Ooops: didn't see page 2 as Lex already answered.

5. ravings & groan = Savings & Loan

2. noun and thirty = down and dirty

Well-done, all! We're just about finished.

I appreciate the compliments, although flotsam showed that I'm still a rookie at setting puzzles. Creating brainteasers shares a similarity with computer programming: one really needs to be forward thinking and consider all potential paths an "end-user" might take.

I'll keep practicing.

As no one else is biting, 2 dough & sparrow = bow & arrow

Helmer you are doing fine with your puzzles, and this was a good one - teasing but not torturing the brain!

I enjoyed the puzzle, Helmer.

Good finish, Lex (#3).

Thank you, kindly, Marian. I'll try to think of something like it, for next time.

Great puzzle, Helmer. Keep 'em coming.

Redz (Joan)