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@Marshall Walthew As a woman who's battled her weight for too many years, I thought "InSpanx" would have been a funny answer to the clue "where hips do lie".

@Eric On my first pass I had mistakenly entered A$$OFSTEEL. Admirable goal, but wrong answer!

@Jeremy I'm embarrassed to say how long I stuck with "LYFT" in that spot.....

@Barry Ancona Also, with an alternative spelling, the title of a Joni Mitchell album!

@Cassidy there are two spellings of the word: Mantle meaning cape or covering and mantel meaning beam or shelf above a fireplace. Spellcheck would definitely not catch the misuse!

@Dave K. Guessing it refers to the phrase "the be-all and end-all", which means the most important thing. Took me a while to get it.

@kkseattle While "rime" makes frequent x-word appearances, I didn't know "rimier" was a word.

@Michael Thank you - I had the same questions as Joe.

@Mean Old Lady Our daughter did get free room and board as an RA in the early aughts at a U of WI school. And if you were, for some reason, forced to watch a Disney animated movie, Beauty and the Beast would be one of the better choices. (imho)

@Rachel Boomer here. I remember getting the oral polio vaccine!

@LFL Agree whole-heartedly!

@Mary A. Thanks to my forever-gaming teen grandsons, I knew that term.

@sunny617 Thinking back to reading Don Quixote in senior year Spanish class - DQ "tilted at" windmills, which meant he was carrying a lance whilst on his horse; charging at windmills he thought were giants.

@David Rei Hoping I'm not the only one recalling coconut shells being clapped together while thinking of Monty Python and the Holy Grail today.

@Cliff Shaw The first time I heard the word libretto, I was in 6th grade, and very jealous of my little brother who got a part in the school play. He rubbed it in by conspicuously carrying the libretto all around the house, memorizing his lines.

@CaptainQuahog I've experience the same thing occasionally. If I close out the tab and reopen NYT Puzzles on a new tab, I am usually logged in automatically.