Jill from Brooklyn

Had some problems with the clue "where it's at" because 'two turntables and a microphone' didn't fit.

EGGING in this economy?

Jokes on you - that's not a hat. It's the outline of a snake that has just eaten an elephant.

Tripped up bc “difficult figure skating jump” implies being the actual NAME of the jump - lutz, axel, or flip, in this case. I guess the best way to describe it is the number of rotations is a variation of the jump itself and in the singular you need to specify WHICH jump. For instance: she’s working on a triple lutz, he’s working on his quad flip, etc. And yes, you can refer to the rotations when there are multiple jumps in her question: she’s planning three quads, he has all of this triples, because there the jump itself isn’t important. Yes, I’m a figure skater :-)

It's almost as if the exact language of a poem is the thing that makes it good...

Why don’t I ever get ambushed by 15 kittens? Does the cat distribution system hate me?

Chuffed at the HOPS and IPA entries being next to each other.

The slush pile is still very, very much a thing.

I can concur that seeing the Northern Lights does evoke a sense of awe. I got to finally see them on a transatlantic flight last month and started tearing up.

You did not seriously link to Nickelback?!?!??! Nickelback the Creed of Canada? ::checks to make sure that no one is around:: ::scream sings:: And I've been wrong, I've been down Been to the bottom of every bottle These five words in my head Scream, "Are we havin' fun yet?"

Oh, THAT's what emus are!

Yeet is too good of a word to just throw away.

I thought the most "unwelcome sound in a crowded subway car" is "Showtime!"

The Finns and Hungarians would like to have a word with you with regard to European non-Indo-European languages.

"Byron Walden’s 69th Saturday puzzle" Nice.

Cute theme - I would have loved a few more Animal Crossing references (c'mon, 52 Down could have been clued "Nook"). Also, how cruel is Animal Crossing to not allow you to gift Blathers with a Mastodon skeleton.

Have the Minnesotans complained about the first clue of the mini yet?

Here's WNY we're supposed to have mostly cloudy skies, but as long as they're mid to high elevation - which it appears that they will be - we should still see some really cool effects! From this article: "mid-to-high-level clouds — cirrostratus, altostratus and/or cirrocumulus... But upon the arrival of the moon's shadow, we saw its distinctly sharp edge move in. For those of a certain age who might remember the long-running television soap opera "The Edge of Night," whose opening showed an animation with a line of darkness sweeping over a city, that's exactly what I was reminded of as we were enveloped by the moon's umbral shadow. Once you actually experience it for yourself, it becomes easy to understand why this sight was so terrifying to ancient people. Along with the sudden darkness came a change in the clouds' color. Behind the forward-moving edge of the moon's shadow were strange and exotic colors. The dull gray suddenly became yellow-orange and tints you'd see while looking through a beer or iodine bottle. Indeed, along the very edge of the disappearing sun at the start and end of totality, an arc of ruby red or fuchsia associated with the solar chromosphere appeared. It looked bright red because the hydrogen in the sun was emitting a reddish light at high temperatures, and some of this light may become evident in the clouds at the beginning and end of totality. " <a href="https://www.space.com/what-if-it-is-cloudy-for-total-solar-eclipse-april-8-2024?u" target="_blank">https://www.space.com/what-if-it-is-cloudy-for-total-solar-eclipse-april-8-2024?u</a>

Henri! Le chat noir!

Okay, so how Peggy is from Margaret is because waaaaay back in the day a fun thing to do was switch the M for a P. So you go from Margaret to Maggie to Peggy. Kind of how Polly is a nickname for Mary bc Mary to Molly to Polly. Dorothy to Dot is pretty simple: Dorothy to Dotty to Dot.

Hooray a figure skating jump that didn't end up being an axel! (I had salchow at first because that's the second 'real' jump figure skaters learn after a waltz jump...)

Who would ever betray Paddington?

Anyone else running through the list of xylophone type instruments the way that one Tiktok guy until you found one that fit? Just me? Maybe I should get off line...

Caitlyn, you clearly never paged through an American Girl catalogue before they retired Kirsten!

BU representation! Go Terriers!

The Paris Opera Ballet uses 'etoile' to denote their most esteemed dancers.

I don't know about 88A, I'm visiting my parents and their adorable scottie and favorite child, Belle. CAMPSITE was not on my radar, but near the popcorn/pizza/yogurt wanter was.

Yeet is just a perfect word.

Omg I can’t believe I didn’t get SHERATON - especially since I lived in that dorm and floor and Mr Eugene O'Neill got the elevator one Halloween evening. And considering the call buttons only light up when you press them…, I was coming home from Halloween festivities with my friends. I went to push the call button and before I could do so, it lit up… like someone just pressing it before you. And I mean I was Just About To Push The Button and someone else pushed it. I watched what happened when empty elevators were coming down to see if that was a thing and it isn’t. If you study ghost stories then you know that most of them are mundane, or one offs. And this is why I submit to you that this is true.

Figured out the theme simply because of the iconic "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated..."

The Mechanical Turk reminds me a lot of "AI" which often ends up not being the work of an LLM but the labor of some Kenyan or Indian after all.

A man and a woman are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird are one.

Oooooh that’s why you mentioned and twelve little feet in the photo. Clever. Very clever.

To quibble - if it's nearly half the poem is it really the end of a sonnet? A couplet could be the end of a sonnet but the last 6 lines? I know what a Petrarchan sonnet is. I still stand by my point.