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@NanuNanu Is wrinkly the opposite of irony?

@Mean Old Lady "Idem" or its abbreviation, "id." is used extensively in legal documents and opinions.

@Francis Wondering is the first step in knowing your unknown unknowns.

@Grant Also got a whiff of memory from "The Big Bang Theory's" "Fun With Flags." Pretty sure vexillology was mentioned.

@Carolina Once you get tot the first rebus, just stop?

@Nancy I make lists of things I'm trying to forget.

@Chris J Our cat is named "Sweet Pea" often shortened to "Sweets."

@Derek “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more."

@John Carson "Dorothy's last name" used to be my boss' favorite trivia question.

@Lewis I also liked "LOTTE" and "LOTTO."

@Nancy No chain restaurants in NYC? You obviously (and rightly) avoid Times Square. But c'mon, man!

@McX Language changes.

@Charles Peterson Iwas told, "There will be cake." Sometimes just wrong.

Agree. I've never heard "Fab 5" for the Beatles.

@Esmerelda Read the most recent Louise Penny novel.

@Eric I've been trying to solve these things since 1973. "Espial" was new to me.

@The X-Phile James Ijames has three plays being produced on Philadelphia this season (one closed already.)

@Nancy "I've been better and I've been worse. Better is better."

@suejean I thought the shaded (unused) squares looked more like Tetris!

@Andrew Kennelly Merriam-Webster tells us that "gelid" comes from the Latin adjective "gelidus" which in turn comes from the Latin noun "gelu" meaning frost or cold.

@Ombeady If you can tell us what they aren't, could you kindly tell us what they are?

@Beth R Funny - This one started my streak of completing with zero look-ups.

@Amanda I was on this steamboat for a while, then thought that MM's debut was way earlier than 1949.

@Marshall Walthew "Spotlighted" is probably preferred in this context. "Spotlit" could be preferred, if cheeky, when referring to the 1960 movie with Spencer Tracy as Drummond (stand-in for Darrow) or the 1974 TV production with Henry Fonda, or any of the other theatrical performances.

@Jane Wheelaghan Isn't Jada Pinkett Smith "famous" for "Keep my wife's name outtaa your mouth"?

@Mean Old Lady There was a time when yellow was the only color for a "power tie."

@ST In the mid-eighties, there was a popular bar/restaurant in Washington DC - The Ha'Penny Lion.

@Bruce Isn't part of the process etching the image onto the press/stamper?

@Barry Ancona The latter. Thanks for asking.

@Leo You might have enjoyed the solving more if theme-aware.

@Francis Isn't there a better place for Wordle comments?

@Holly Don't know either. I figured it was a "scene" from one of books.

@JD Looking again, I see spectators in the rear of this photo of (fashion) models on the floor.

@Geoff Offermann Also check "Why Dinosaurs Matter" by Kenneth Locovara. It's a TED talk and Ted-book by the founding director if the new Edelman Fossil Park and Museum, which is in my backyard here in the South Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia.

@The X-Phile Thank you. I am aware of Google. I was hoping the OP would reply in some manner?

@John Carson "Mount Judge?"

@Dave Munger Long known as "Your mileage may vary."

@Barry Ancona I had PEAL from the start.