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| In the wee hours of Jan. 7, 2023 he was elected Speaker of the House on the 15th ballot; he was voted out about 9 months later | | | In a nursery rhyme it precedes "pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her" | | | Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote a poem about a "Little Orphant" named this who would later inspire a comic strip | | | Mealie is the name for this cereal plant that is used to make mush & batters | | | In 1883 Melvil Dewey took this job at Columbia College | | | The representation of a number in the decimal system is called its decimal expansion; for 1/4, it's this | |
| A Connecticut town gave its name to this tick-borne disease that was first identified in the 1970s | | | It's the name of the Darlings' nursemaid/dog in "Peter Pan", or what you might call your grandmother | | | Even with inflation this "Peanuts" character was always willing to give her advice for 5 cents | | | Doro wat, stewed chicken often eaten with injera bread, is a national dish of this East African country | | | They're Donald Duck's 3 nephews | | | Each numeral from 0 to 9 is a decimal one of these, from a word meaning "finger" | |
| A flexible spine allows this fastest dog breed to have all 4 feet off the ground at the same time when galloping | | | In 2015, these '80s legends released "Paper Gods", their 14th studio album | | | It followed the imaginative adventures of a 6-year-old boy & his trusty toy tiger | | | Angola's cuisine is influenced by this European country that brought ingredients from its Brazilian colony | | | Jazz instrument on which Miles Dewey Davis III was a legendary virtuoso | | | Though not required, "trailing" these to the right of a decimal point are often used to show levels of accuracy | |
| 1978 saw the deaths of 2 popes: Paul VI & then, less than 2 months later, this pope | | | This Washington city famous for its sweet onions has been described as "the town so nice they named it twice" | | | You could say it's wife Helga who wears the skins in the family in this strip | | | Granular semolina goes by this name which is also the name of a stew made in Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia | | | On May 1, 1898 Commodore George Dewey & his fleet sailed into this bay | | | One of the 2 baseball statistics, both expressed to 3 decimal places, that make up the stat OPS | |
| "Deep in my heart, I do believe" this folk song has been called the anthem of the civil rights movement | | | In 2015, a new member of the panda family was born at the Smithsonian National Zoo & given this name, not Newborn | | | Though his original strip ended in 1975, this character lives on as Georgia's state 'possum | | | They go gaga in Ouagadougou for riz gras, this country's national dish of rice with cabbage & eggplant | | | U.S. educator & psychologist John Dewey helped develop this philosophic branch associated with William James | | | Founded in 1792, it reported prices in 1/8 or 1/16 of a dollar before moving to a decimal system in the 21st century | |