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.]
Sans___: carefree SOUCA
Alencon's department ORNE [In English we have the expression cottage orne, which were in the Victorian style --- I think.
