THEME: four C's in random phrases; hence the clever title
"Foresees" GOOD ONES: Private beds? COTS [Army privates]
Brief reply? ANS
BTW: Ma-___ store AND PA [it's Mom and Pop shop; this is a non-rhyming corruption of the idiom]
Call-to-action response to one's own rhetorical question I SAY NO [seems the speaker is calling for inaction]
No more guesses, just tell me I'LL BITE ["I'll bite" suggests the speaker wants to make no guesses but just be given the answer]
Inside company INTEL [seems to need quotation marks around "Inside" since that's part of the slogan]
neun, Drei, OTRA, and ACA are foreign words we don't ever use
Diamond thieves' undoings? TAGS [I would like this baseball one, but
most tags occur
after the slider is safe]
Despite all my carping, there was much to like about this puzzle.
RATING:
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun
