(Alex: Each response is made up of two 5-letter words.)
Wonder bakes loaves of this, also an adjective meaning bland
What is White Bread?
Made consistent:
The SAT & ACT are this type of test
What is Standardized?
A nursery rhyme pumpkin eater's units of measure
What is Peter's Meters?
Ask Billy Idol--the origin of this phrase is the bloodcurdling battle cries of Confederate troops
What is Rebel Yell?
A bridge by which one road goes over another & a spring festival commemorating the liberation of the Israelites
What is Overpass & Passover?
Traffic signal term that also means permission to proceed on a project
What is Green Light?
Made generally known via a press release
What is Publicized?
Paddy grain cost
What is Rice Price?
"Speech is silver" begins a maxim; you are likely more familiar with this second part
What is Silence is Golden?
A sudden eruption of a disease & a prison escape
What is an Outbreak & a Breakout?
Mus musculus--it's the rhyming name of the rodent seen here
What is House Mouse?
Admitted to Mount Sinai in New York or to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles
What is Hospitalized?
An overconfident thoroughbred rider
What is a Cocky Jockey?
It's a close contest, coming "down to" this, what used to be across the finish line of a horse race
What is The Wire?
A short break between airplane flights & a transparent sheet placed on top of another sheet
What is a Layover & an Overlay?
It's the smart-sounding name for a group of experts who serve unofficially as advisers; FDR had his own
Small, like a child, or containing 16 ounces
What is Pint-sized?
A tin pot for cooking or boiling water
What is a Metal Kettle?
19th c. exhibitions saw fire brigades competing either using water, or in one of these, now a term for a practice effort
To maintain a principle & a bank robbery using guns
What is Uphold & Holdup?
This software program for formatting movie & TV scripts has been around since 1990
What is Final Draft?
Combined with element No. 8
What is Oxidized?
Ms. Doe without her makeup
What is Plain Jane?
This scornful response to an unlikely story comes from British sailors' contempt for other military men
What is Tell It To The Marines?
To make more transactions than another & one who has betrayed his honor for cash
What is Sellout & Outsell?