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@Ricky Ricardo In modern parlance, someone who simply reads comments in a chat without participating by posting themselves is known as a "lurker".

@Called Here in Chicago, it's dese and dose. As well as Da Bears.

@Steve L As Joni Mitchell wrote: "They paved paradise/And put up a parking lot".

@Kenny B. There are a lot of twee comments posted here. It gets very cliquish sometimes, like a self-involved high school club.

@CrispinG You must be too young to remember Agnew's "[n]attering nabobs of negativism", a phrase crafted by the great William Safire.

@David Hancock Diana Ross & the Supremes.

@Charles In addition, the fact that one rebus required whole words while the others didn't was inconsistent, and to me confusing.

@Remi What about the expressed equivalent power of explosives, especially nuclear weapons? Because that is the most common usage of kiloton/megaton.

@Joe P. You should have met my youngest brother who after becoming bipedal did not favor wearing a diaper and would remove them but was not yet potty trained and so...well, I'll leave that to your imagination.

@JD Feels a bit made up to me. "Steno" is much more common.

@Cindy I wonder if there's a (mis)reading equivalent term to mondegreen. I do this all the time too.

@archaeoprof My father went there similarly after his Korean War era service, so I and my brother followed on for the same reason.

@Karen Take advantage of the archives. I'm working backwards, currently in 2016, and am finding most Friday and Saturday puzzles to be a challenge. As were those for many of the years between then and now.

@Grant He also gained fame (or maybe notoriety, depending on one's views) earlier as the defense lawyer for Leopold and Loeb, which fact I'm guessing KK would find even more obscure.

@brasticstack Think baseball (outfield) practice.

@Paula The symmetry lies about a line drawn from the upmost left box to the lowest right box. If you fold the puzzle on that line, the pattern overlaps. Traditionally, puzzles are symmetric around the center square; if you rotate the pattern 180° around the pattern the pattern remains the same.

@Mark P Canniest is an anagram of instance, so the clue also serves as an example, ie, an "instance".

@Jake Agreed. "Ah me" or "Oh my", but "Oh me" is definitely forced.

@R.J. Smith One might even go so far as to call it twee. Smugly twee at that.

@maya and ant I'm guessing it's a forced expression for subtraction; if so, "Take away" would have been a better clue, as in 5 take away 3 is 2, or alternatively 5 less 3 is 2.

@Behind a book How many attorneys lack expansive egos? I would guess that fraction to be well south of 50%.

@Bill My first encounter with agar was (if I recall correctly) in 7th grade science when we used it to make a growth medium for bacteria in a Petri dish. It was a powder in one of those huge brown chemical supply bottles from some scientific supply companies, although I can't recall which one. This was during Tricky Dick's first term, so ancient history now.

@Nicola Just look at the streets revealed in the excavation of Pompei. How can the constructor & editor both get a clue so wrong?

@Bob I wonder if the tunes are regional in popularity, because here in Chicago it seems it always been "Turkey in the Straw".

@Allen Blue line spur west of the (also through) the Loop is underground then at grade. Same applies to the Red line southern spur.

@Oikofuge "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold/ And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold" I guess that George Gordon, Lord Byron, had no rhyme for fank. Even though he himself was a Scot.

@Abby I do also.

@Mr Dave Also possibly HAITCH (even though it's not in today's puzzle).

@R.J. Smith I had the same reaction when I saw the clue. Googling the plural of "ox" assures me it's oxen.