Now I'm beginning to have serious concerns about my mental status. I did get all the 'regular' puzzle right, so there is that. And even though I looked at the bonus and saw the two words, 'hand' and 'hen', never once did I come even close to changing 'hen' to 'bird'. In my own defense, I will say that while I did grow up on a farm, we never EVER referred to our hens (and we often had a lot of them!) as 'birds'. They were chickens! Rusty

1. Tossed green salad 2. Purple prose 3. Red-headed woodpecker 4. Yellow rose of Texas 5. Scarlett O'Hara 6. Rainbow trout 7. Fresh squeezed orange juice 8. Little brown jug 9 Red letter day 10 African violet 11 Ol Blue Eyes 12 "Ruby Tuesday" 13 Between the devil and the deep blue sea 14 Coat of many colours 15 Picasso's blue period 16 Putting green 17 Toronto Blue Jays 18 Brownie points 19 Return of the Pink Panther And the title, in case you are wondering......We Never Promised you a Rose Garden Bonus.......internal

Well…I have an idea & it’s not what foas teases us about - though that was a thought I had but decided solution isn’t that obvious.

There are a few options I can think of for this one, but Departs is the correct one.