I love this theme. It's a FOODFIGHT with food and food-related things reinterpreted as actions:
FRUITPUNCH - Ladled party drink
CORNBELT - The Midwest states, agriculturally speaking
LAMBCHOP - Bone-in cut whose name became an endearment
BANANASLUG - Bright yellow creature that moves about 6.5 inches per minute
The speed in that last clue is a weird flex, but ok.
There's a nice contrarian mini-theme with "Voting against" appearing twice (ANTI, CON), and maybe "Use a scope" (AIM) is also related?
I loved the clue "One of a salty septet" for SEA. And it's especially nice that it's followed by the evocative "Blanket draping a mountain at dawn" (MIST), because my family's beach cottage is named SEA MIST. :)
CAPER, ADDLE (Bewilder), GNASH, and CRUMBLE are all good words. And although 'Two pools of light, a mirror bright,' in generative A.I. poetry" (EYES) is nice and modern, the idea of A.I.-generated poetry makes me sad.
- Horace
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