Cryptic Quiz Questions

[megfitz]

Last push for these cryptic questions.. I'm stumped, PLEASE can anyone help with ideas or suggestions.
Headed Fighting Talk::
Self-destructing professional...2.3.5.2.3.5.5.3.2.3.5.

Keep your bandanas on!...6.3.5.
Thank you very much, I've been trying to do these for weeks!

[Leucocyte]

he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword

[Wizzy67]

Well done Megfitz, your persistence is paying off

[daisy16]

Can we make Leucocyte's answer a "best answer". I shows real intuition at a really difficult answer"
Daisy16

[megfitz]

Thank you Leucocyte, brilliant answer, How are you on Bandanas?

[kawagino]

I have bonnie and Clyde but not sure. Do you know
Tributary is a fifth shorter than main stream (4). I have been given the answer (T)rill, but do not understand this.

[megfitz]

Hi Kawagino, Daisy16 has suggested Bonnie and Clyde as an answer or Batman and Robin ,can't think of a better one.
(T)Rill is a small river or stream and that's what I have put as an answer.

[kawagino]

That is interesting about bonnie and Clyde being Daisy's choice too. I understand the rill bit but do not understand what trill has to do with it. I thought it was just a high pitched sound. Is it something to do with rivers?

[megfitz]

Kawagino, As far as I understand it Trill is an intransitive verb of 5 letters , meaning to flow in a small stream, (google..not me ) so remove the T to make Rill,
I think that's the reasoning behind the answer, maybe someone knows better!!

[Colliewobbler]

Keep your bandanas on: how about Battle for Earth? I have done some googling and it seems to be a phrase used on Humans vs Zombie sites...

[TheWinner]

Could keep your bandanas on be Laurel and Hardy?
Sorry, I haven't been on much this week. I was thinking of a phrase rather than people, but Laurel and Hardy were always playing a tit for tat fight, and they did use bandanas.
“They had labored mightily to move the piano up a seemingly endless winding stairway leading to a house on top of a hill. When they finally get it up there, they pause for a break and both of them take their hands off the piano to wipe their faces with bandanas. They are in the forefront of the picture, facing the camera, the piano is in the background directly behind them. The audience sees the piano slowly start to move down an incline toward the stairs they have just wrestled it up, but the “boys” (as they were often called) are oblivious to the movement. The piano slides out of the screen shot (and the camera remains fixed on the faces of Laurel and Hardy) as the noise of its descent is heard. First a heavy thump, then the tinkle of a keyboard. Another thump, a sort of crashing sound, and then a slowly diminishing cacaphony of piano notes and splintering sounds as the piano goes down the lengthy stairway.” Now some common sense would say, “I am not taking my hands off this piano until it is in place and safe.”