Sheri
MI, USA
@Mary Ka Lae would be in Hawai'i, which is further south than Florida. Key West is the southernmost point in the contiguous US.
This was the first non-Monday puzzle I've managed to solve without looking anything up, using this article for help, or using Autocheck! I'm proud, especially because I haven't been doing crosswords for very long. I will say, as much as I love the theme, I will go on record to state that Disco Duck is one of the worst songs that my eardrums have had the misfortune of hearing. If I ever hear it again, it will be too soon.
@Warren On a wind instrument, it's playing two different pitches without tonguing (re-articulating) or taking a breath in between, and this is true for both woodwind and brass instruments.
Had to wait to get other clues for the flag question, since the flag in question has changed since puzzle submission. It is now three equal-width bands of green, white, and black (in that order from top to bottom) with three red stars equidistant from each other in the white band.
@Jess Also could be a powerful server in volleyball as well.
@Convoid-04 From my (potentially flawed) remembering, it goes Olmec -> Maya -> Inca/Aztec. The Olmecs are known mostly from their giant stone heads and existed before the birth of Jesus; the Maya were between them and ~1300 AD; the Inca and Aztec were around at overlapping times between 1350-1600AD, but the Aztec were in Mexico and the Inca were in the Andes.
@Momerlyn Another clue could be "site of 2011 weather disaster" because 2011 had quite a few of them in the span of a month.
@Jules A slur is a notation in music that tells the musician that two different notes are to be played without rearticulating them. Rearticulation could be plucking/bowing strings or tonguing/taking a breath between notes. A similar thing exists for playing two of the same note, but it's called a tie instead of a slur. If you want an auditory example, listen to the beginning of Pilot's "Magic" (the one they use in the Ozempic commercials): the first 'ohs' are all distinct notes, but when they sing the word 'know' they connect the pitches together.
@Andrew In context, it has to do with psychological operations (psy-ops), but if you're referring to the South Korean rapper who's known for Gangnam Style, his birth name (per Wikipedia) is Park Jae-sang.
@HeathieJ Nice day but that's bad news for tonight - more energy for severe weather to feed from.
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