Jester of Xanadu

@Lulu This isn’t an airport; no need to announce your departure.

@Alex Barry If you were as erudite as you wished everyone to believe, you would know that a slippery slope is a logical fallacy, and therefore nothing to get one’s knickers in a bunch over.

@Tom C. The Oscars for movies in 2022 have to be given out in 2023 because otherwise 2022 hasn’t ended yet.

@Nancy Well yes, sixteen letters is a little easier to put together than the usual Sunday solve. It doesn’t take someone who can plan a lunar mission to figure that out.

@Roberta Mind if I take a crack at the first crossword you’ve had published in the Times to see how it compares?

@Nom De Plume They are percussion in a jug band.

@PuzzleDog I have slightly bad news for you. The good Mr. Crapper didn’t invent the toilet. He did, however, invent the floating ballcock in your toilet. Which would be a delight to see in a crossword as all the prides clutch their smelling salts here in the comments.

@loftyc If you haven’t heard of XKCD until now, I highly recommend you be one of today’s lucky 10,000 and go discover something smart and funny instead of proudly wallowing in your ignorance. But seriously, the xkcd strip “Ten Thousand” is an apt one to start with.

@Kristopher Specifically, a translator deals with written text while an interpreter deals with spoken words.

@Mean Old Lady I did the same on the computer woman. But her name was Ada, not Ida.

@David Shh. Let people enjoy things.

@Bruce AR(EAR)YA and its counterpart IH(EAR)UG make more sense when you jump through the EAR wormhole to get AR(EA R)UG and I H(EAR) YA.