Sunday Puzzle: P-Ro Phrases

The Weekly Quiz from NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz                                                                                                                                              https://www.npr.org/2025/09/28/g-s1-89827/sunday-puzzle

Today’s puzzle is for pros. Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts with P and the second starts RO-.     Ex. Slow-cooked beef dish often served for Sunday dinner > POT ROAST

1. 1970s craze involving a stone you were supposed to water
2. Small place in a house where guests can freshen up
3. Course around the neighborhood for delivering the Times, the Herald, the Post, etc.
4. Longtime Cincinnati Red nicknamed “Charlie Hustle”
5. Auto route that’s been upgraded from a dirt surface
6. Leader of the U.S. during the Great Depression
7. Minimalist music genre epitomized by the Ramones
8. Steeply slanted top of a house
9. Where the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts