‘7 Little Words' Hints, Clues And Answers For Monday, July 14th

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Clues and answers for today's 7 Little Words puzzle.
If you're looking for Sunday's 7 Little Words guide, it's right here:
Okay, day three of writing 7 Little Words guides and we'll see if this is something I continue entirely based on whether there's a readership for it or not. I think it's a genuinely fun game with just the right amount of challenge. It makes you think about words and how they can have different meanings and the clues are always quite clever. I like that some days there's a kind of theme, like yesterday's 'follow your nose" theme. Today's is more about wordplay. Let's solve it!
If you haven't played the game yet, you can play 7 Little Words right here.
The game is simple. You have a five-by-five grid of boxes, each containing a group of letters. Above this grid are seven phrases, each giving you a clue to seven words. The number of letters is listed next to each phrase. There is no time limit and no penalty for wrong answers. Solve each one in any order you please.
The example given by the game is 'deep fried treats' (6 letters) and the boxes that would create the word are DO + NU + TS for DONUTS. The game is played in UK English, so this could throw a little wrench into things for non-Brits.
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Before we get to the answers, below you'll find the starting 'box' for each word in today's puzzle. Spoilers ahead!
Today's 7 Little Words
Today's words are mostly tricky plays on words. For instance, 'football' means one thing to Americans and another to everyone else. Shaken, not stirred makes us think of a martini, but we should think of other meanings for 'shaken' and the same applies to 'beat' which isn't always musical in nature.
Here are the first letters of each corresponding word:
Now here are the full answers.
Today's 7 Little Words answers
One thing I find helpful with this puzzle is to really think about how many letters each word is and what kinds of boxes you'll need to complete the remaining words, especially when you've gotten a couple out of the way. I had the last three words remaining this time and since they were 7, 8 and 9 letters I knew that one had to be three three-letter boxes, so I could just ignore the rest of the 2-letter boxes entirely. This got me DISCOURSE and from here, UNNERVED and PATROLS were much more obvious. I like the way today's puzzle played with meaning. 'waited, in a way' being SERVED is quite clever. A very clever puzzle all around.