The clues below lead to words that can be matched up so that if you insert the word “and” between the pair of words and then spoonerize, you’ll get a familiar phrase. Spoonerizing involves switching the initial consonant sounds, and perhaps changing the spelling, to create new words. For example, the clues “satisfy” and “tiny” would lead to the answers “sate and wee” which spoonerize into “wait and see.”

-1. Basic unit of heredity
-2. Cirrus, cumulus or stratus
-3. Commit perjury
-4. Crabby person
-5. Distant
-6. Habeus corpus, for one
-7. Hard to chew
-8. Kilts, essentially
-9. Kind of pickle
-10. Labyrinth
-11. Lock openers
-12. Low digit?
-13. Murder
-14. Option for fourth and long
-15. Period of rapid economic growth
-16. Resounding blow (w----)
-17. Shot on a golf green
-18. Small dog breed, for short
-19. Takes to court
-20. Thief

-a. Attila, e.g.
-b. Clean the kitchen floor
-c. Conch
-d. Flat-bottomed boat
-e. Gang fight
-f. General office worker
-g. Halloween exclamation
-h. Kind of goat
-i. Lascivious look
-j. Leashlike rope
-k. Lower leg parts
-l. Made a lion’s sound
-m. Mild oath
-n. Mimicking birds
-o. Painful precipitation
-p. Part of a car’s suspension
-q. Stops breast-feeding
-r Studied with intent to rob
-s. Urban decay (b-----)
-t. Wrap with twine

3/d lie and barge = by and large

9/o dill and hail/hill and dale

7/e tough and rumble = rough and tumble

Excellent starts!

10 - q - maze and weans = ways and means

Great puzzle, Sue!

1/f gene and clerk = clean and jerk

Sue, I think you crossed off 4 instead of 7.

That cuz she knows I'm a "Crabby person"

2/i cloud and leer = loud and clear

Thank you, Sherlock. All fixed now.

oldbroad, there's only love for you here.

Marian, I'm glad you like it.

That's three more great answers!

13/g - kill and boo = bill and coo

Yes!

11/n keys and parrots = peas and carrots

19/p sues and shocks = shoes and socks

Yes to both!

15l: boom and roared/room and board

6a writ and hun = hit and run

More good stuff!

20/h crook + nanny = nook and cranny

12c. toe and shell / show and tell

Both good!

14m. punt and heck / hunt and peck
18b - pom and mop / mom and pop

17/r putt + cased = cut and paste

All correct!