Can you name the pairs of words where the 1st word (eg: STAR) is spelled backwards to get the 2nd word (eg: RATS)?

Left-to-right clue (Length)	Word pair	Right-to-left clue (Length)
Edwin Starr song good for absolutely nothing (3)		Like sushi or salad (3)
Inspiration to Gotham's vigilante (3)		Diet Coke precursor (3)
Used to be (3)		2004 horror film (3)
Actress Ryan of film fame (3)		A Ruby, Pearl or Diamond (3)
Air and highway alternative (4)		An untruthful person (4)
Canal and crisis site (4)		Olympus big-wig (4)
Far too often it's just junk (4)		Portrayed 'Oskar' in Oscar-winning film (4)
Lots and lots (4)		Nasal mucus, familiarly (4)
to refuse to throw away (4)		To spoil a Christmas or birthday surprise (4)
Where to get on the subway (4)		Poker winnings or kitchenware (4)
All my 15-year-old car is good for (5)		Backpack feature (5)
Molokai resident (5)		Drive back or fight off (5)
Perform badly or smell bad (5)		Uses needles to make a sweater (5)
Marvel's Sub-Mariner (5)		Number that may be M, L or XL (5)
'Menace' of the comic pages (6)		To have transgressed (6)
Gave back the loan (6)		It's a bum wrap! (6)
Minor error or boo-boo (4-2)		Body parts that get bigger at night (6)
Put tiles down anew (6)		Old-style telephone caller (6)
Bring (a package) to the door (7)		Detested or hated (7)
Under pressure (8)		Jell-Os, gelatos, cakes, or cups of flan (8)

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Palindromic Word Pairs Quiz

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	Shinyhubcaps:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 04:42 GMT		16 points
	It could use some clean-up, but the premise is good and it was a good quiz.

	amp2006:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 04:46 GMT		7 points
	Was a pretty good quiz. It got you thinking!

	Bartleby:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 04:50 GMT		21 points
	at least i learned something about a Hawaiian island (Molokai). thanks sporcle and wikipedia.

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	JoeFish:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 04:53 GMT		39 points
	Some pretty clever clues. I'm sure some other people also had dirty thoughts when they saw the green clue for #16...

	fatbeard:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 04:55 GMT		109 points
	I was not mature enough to not laugh at "body parts that get bigger at night"

	Scott:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 04:57 GMT		42 points
	I spent forever trying to figure out what number had to do with sizes for M, X, and XL. I felt quite stupid after.

	michael1:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 04:58 GMT		12 points
	I liked that there was an easy one at the end, to finish on a good note.

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	brianc:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 05:17 GMT		23 points
	the clue for "olympic big-wig" would make more sense as "olympus big-wig" I think. As written I could only think about the modern olympic games, athletics words

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	DerKomissar:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 05:19 GMT		36 points
	I tried "dun-dun-dun-diggy-dun-dun" for Under Pressure, but to no avail.

	rockgolf:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 05:20 GMT		19 points
	@brianc: I intended the ambiguity. I wanted you to get that "Aha!" moment when the two clues fit together.

	dcschmo:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 05:23 GMT		10 points
	Clever clues. I didn't do too well, but I'm happy to be tricked by quizzes like this.

	DragoonKain:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 06:05 GMT		-4 points
	why are these all in numberical order by number of letters except for the last one?

	Golem:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 06:40 GMT		-1 points
	Well, there goes the chances for my Sporcle Labs suggestion. Well, at least my idea got here one way or another!

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	Jordan117:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 07:37 GMT		11 points
	"It's a bum wrap!" Boooo, get off the stage!

	Jawn:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 10:14 GMT		9 points
	@DerKomissar: I tried "pushing down on me", not sure what I expected "em no nwod gnihsup" to be an answer for on the other side though!

	adal:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 11:27 GMT		-3 points
	To define "keep" as "refuse to throw away" is a bit misleading, IMO. When you keep something you're not throwing it away, but you're not actively refusing to. Of course most of the clues were a bit confusing (which was good or it would have been too easy) but the others all made sense when you saw the answer.

	rockgolf:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 12:25 GMT		7 points
	@adai: The clue for "keep" was originally subtly different: "Refuse to throw away", intentionally ambiguous as to whether "refuse" was a noun or verb (eg. "garbage to throw away"). And you've never argued over whether an item goes into a "Toss" pile or a "Keep" pile? @DerKomissar & Hawn: What you get when you twist "Under pressure" around is "Ice Ice Baby". @mark-oh: I have no idea what you could be possibly be talking about.

	rockgolf:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 12:36 GMT		6 points
	@Golem: I personally loved your idea, but I can't figure a way to write a quiz on just any old palindromes. It can be just a list as there are effectively infinite possible palindrome combinations. So you need a clue structure. Then the problem is what kind of clue to write for "Tini saw drawer - a reward was in it." or "Dr. Awkward". Heck, look at the trouble I had cluing "pupils"!

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	alhutch:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 13:33 GMT		5 points
	I would agree with brianc that "Olympic big-wig" made me think of the head of the IOC or something. it would be better rendered as " "Olympus big-wig" or "Olympian big-wig"

	chanman:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 13:37 GMT		6 points
	agree with alhutch. The corrected term would be Olympian.

	deej:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 15:01 GMT		7 points
	roman numbers are the same as "our" (arabic) numbers. it's the numerals that are different, so the clue should change the word from number to numeral. there is no "number" that can be X, M, XL or whatever - that's like saying "what number is 7, 4 and 15?" the answer is NONE, they are mutually exclusive.

	Kicking222:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 15:35 GMT		6 points
	Excellent quiz- truly inspired. I like that not all of the clues are completely straightforward. Great job, rockgolf.

	bmo1616:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 15:45 GMT		5 points
	The name of the quiz should not use the word palindrome, a palindrome is the SAME word spelled backwards as it is forward. I didn't look at the explanation above and only looked at the title name, which threw me off.

	bananaman:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 15:47 GMT		12 points
	Agreed with Bryant, these aren't true palindromes. 'No, sir, away! A papaya war is on!' Is a true palindrome

	minor9th:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 16:14 GMT		17 points
	Decent quiz... Argh! M, L or XL threw me way off, i thought it meant medium, large or exta-large - classic red herring.

	djphob:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 17:05 GMT		16 points
	Awesome quiz! I, too, was stumped by the whole M, L, XL thing. As I was meant to be. This quiz was clever and made you think without being too difficult to figure out. Really well done.

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	juviejay:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 19:00 GMT		4 points
	"Rats live on no evil star."--Anne Sexton's favorite palandrome

	cocky:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 20:47 GMT		9 points
	you got to love a quiz where "snot" is a correct answer.

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	cheezguyty:	Aug 16th, 2009 at 22:07 GMT		4 points
	@Bryant: Perhaps this quiz should be titled "Semordnilaps", which refers to words that become other words when reversed, just as the word 'semordnilap' is 'palindromes' spelled backwards.

	Tir_McDohl:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 00:52 GMT		-3 points
	It just came to my mind that there would be a homonym that applies to #16. It has five letters and it's obscene.