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Sat., 5/23 Croce & Vratsanos

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magus:
THEME:   none, but two fifteeners
   
GOOD ONES:     
Over the limit on the rd.   DUI [alcohol, not speed]   
Liquidated?   MELTED [wasn't this in The Wizard of Oz?]   
Novel ending   ETTE [maybe not so novel but good nonetheless]
Short prayer?   MANTIS [that's "pray-er" so a praying mantis prays, in a way]   
Not a good way to run   AGROUND ["run aground" is a sailing horror about which I have direct experience!]   
Time keeper?   FOB [it keeps the watch from falling]   
   
BTW:   
Buff   FIEND [Hardly.  The clue means devotee; a FIEND is maniacal.  They are far apart]   
   
Right, in a way   AVENGE [only if one thinks that to take revenge is the right thing to do]   
   
Ejection interjection   SCRAM [but it's a command, not an interjection]   
   
"Building a healthier world" means the world and therefore its inhabitants are healthier.  The word "healthful" seems today to be ignored and so we get slogans like "… it's a healthy food" or "heathy choice."  But, I remember when "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should."  As Bob Dylan wrote, "I used to care, but things have changed."  [great song "Things Have Changed" and contrasts well with his earlier "Times, They Are A Changin'"]   
   
I don't mind being beaten, which I was today, but to lose to the French "___-la-loi" is hard to take [but to be honest, I couldn't get TOROID either]   
   
   
RATING:    ;D ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun   

Thomps2525:
I, too, deplore the use of "healthy" as a synonym for "healthful." I also detest the use of "nauseous" as a synonym for "nauseated." When someone tells me he feels nauseous, I usually respond, "Really? You make other people sick?"

And why do "flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing?

magus:
Because we have no French Academie to keep our language "pure."

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