The theme today appears to be cluing common-ish phrases in a novel way. I say common-ish, because I am not familiar with WEASELWORDS, and might have thought of "Mink, ferret, stoat, etc." before thinking of words that are intentionally false or misleading when seeing the phrase. CATCHPHRASES ("Eye on the ball," "Get under it!," "I got it!," etc.) and FINISHLINES ("Ta-da," "All done," "There you have it," etc.) were both fine. And SIGNLANGUAGE is what? Common words that are also used on signs? (Yield, Stop, Dead End, etc.) Seems odd, but ok.
I liked ONMESSAGE (Consistent with party policy), "Somme friends" (AMIS), and "Consumers of hogwash" (SWINE). The clue "What 'America runs on,' in a franchise slogan" makes me wonder just how far DUNKIN has grown.
It might not surprise you to learn that I just looked that up, and I am way behind the times! Since starting right here in Massachusetts (Quincy) in 1950, Dunkin' Donuts (now just Dunkin') has grown to have approximately 14,000 locations in 39 countries, with South Korea being its biggest overseas market. I feel I should balance all this Dunkin' talk by saying that I would never get anything from Dunkin', and I can't remember the last time I was ever in one.
Lastly, GALL (Chutzpah) is a good word.
- Horace
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