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@Ms. Billie M. Spaight Add me to the list of people increasingly irked by your insistence on repeatedly coming to a different puzzle's comments to spoil Connections. It has its own comment section, where your explicit spoilers will also not be welcome. PLEASE stop this!

@Joe P Never seen a non-digital clock? A traditional analog clock has two hands that sweep around the face to point at numbers indicating the time. Little hand is hours, big hand is minutes. Most also have a second hand.

@Heidi I'm delighted to see I'm not the only one who gritted their teeth seeing this annoying baby-talk word make it to the crossword!

@Bill Nice Latin connections - though I must pedantically point out the Latin plural of the (neuter) opus is opera, which is confusing because there is a different (feminine) Latin word whose singular is "opera" and whose plural is "operae," and it's from this one that we derive our "opera/operas."

@Mike Just to clarify further, in versions where he was Callisto's son she wasn't a bear yet when she raised him.

@Deb K There were also 100 Japanese sen in a yen before inflation reduced the yen's value. I guess both answers work, I didn't even think of the "senator" answer!

@The X-Phile "T is for Titus who flew into bits." Actually, Neville is also my favorite but he was taken, and the picture for Titus is a masterpiece of suspense.

@Michael Dover A jug handle (characteristic of NJ) is when a dedicated lane exits off on the right side and then curves around to let you cross the road you were originally on, resulting in a left turn. It takes some extra space for the roads but sounds less terrifying than this Michigan thing.

@Nora As a fan of cryptic crosswords, I agree with you that the interface really makes you fight it. I also think it doesn't really work to have a daily puzzle that aims to introduce people to cryptics, because a lot depends on the daily difficulty you happen to get. I went through the tutorial fine but then the daily puzzle was rated "hard' and I found it impenetrable. If there were just a pool of easier "real" puzzles you could play through I think that would bring in a lot more people.

@Mike Arcturus: Arcas/Arcturus was a hunter who tried to kill Callisto when she was a bear, also sometimes identified as her son. But stories vary! You can read more at the links below: <a href="https://earthandstarryheaven.com/2015/04/22/arcturus-bear-guard" target="_blank">https://earthandstarryheaven.com/2015/04/22/arcturus-bear-guard</a>/ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes#History_and_mythology" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes#History_and_mythology</a>

@Andrzej That's interesting coming from a skilled solver like you! I thought the universality of the mathematical representation of exponents would make this one easier for non-US solvers. But in fact many of the themed clues were very USian (I spotted "sweet 16" immediately and that cracked it for me, and "one-armed bandit is also very American lingo). I'm sure your losing streak will break tomorrow!

@Joe You are correct. As a fifth century BCE philosopher, Zeno would of course only have had access to still cameras, so this movie camera analogy would have made no sense to him. (/s in case necessary in these humorless times, but in any case take it from a professional classicist, you are correct)

@Scott Sure - hence the biblical "sow the wind, reap the whirlwind."

@Barry Ancona It seems to me that we rather have NOTHING standing in for the letter T. Since "rebus" comes from the Latin "res" meaning "thing," I would have to agree that this is not a rebus!