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		Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on January 15, 2010, 10:23:39 AM
		
			
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 Acted like a rat   SANG [mixing slang of generations]
 Pre-bedtime fare    NEWS [I was thinking snacks or reading]
 Cost of freedom?    BAIL
 Mean business    EVIL
 Strip lighter    NEON [Las Vegas Strip]
 Caterpillar's creation    TENT [I thought big machines, but it's the lothesome nests that spawn the leaf-chewing insects]
 Hot Christmas staple   YULELOG [I thought toddies, etc.]
 They have highs and lows    TIDES [not bipolars, elevators, or yo-yo's]
 THEME: "He gone!" [Hawk Harrelson's dumb call after a strikeout]
 Like fingerpainters?   YOUNGATART [Actually there was a "Young at Art" contest in New York City when I was a child.  I won a medal before it became apparent that the judges were too precipitous in judging my watercolors ability.]
 
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 Sans___: carefree   SOUCA
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 Alencon's department   ORNE [In English we have the expression cottage orne, which were in the Victorian style --- I think.