Days and Nights

Mikey, an apostrophe is called for. That was a fun puzzle! Thanks.

I had the same issue with the apostrophe. But no worries. Fun puzzle! Thanks, Mikey!

OMG this meta is fantastic! But you had this person who spends more time in theaters than ballparks going for a while... I kept trying to find the matching clue for OPENING NIGHT. And with this answer, it HAD to be meta number 40. Perfect.

Such a fun solve! Congrats on 40!

Fun solve, thank you!

Would not accept apostrophe. Backsolving but got there.

Nice one! Must have fixed the apostrophe :-) Congrats on 40, and thanks!

Congratulations on meta 40, Mikey! Well done! And a lot of fun!

I love this kind of meta. Fun.

Wow. This has to be the absolute longest I've ever had between realizing the mechanism and method and actually being able to spell it out. Pretty dang dense on my part. I think because Alp was the last I found I just somehow could not put it in where it belonged. I spent hours thinking "I know I have to put the letters RKHSAONA in grid order and that is NOHSARKA"

I made an Ararat first, but I corrected it. Fun puzzle!

Great meta 40, Mikey. This was a fun one. Thanks!

Ya know, it wasn't until I saw the tab in my browser, well after solving, that I noticed the significance of "40. Days and Nights." :-P

Loved it. Very well done, Mikey.

I noticed but then ignored the "40." at the beginning of the title as it appears at x-muggles (the top 40?). Nice puzzle, though I needed a nudge from Baywatch Abide.

Wow, quite the puzzle and I was in QUITE THE rabbit hole. Definitely a 3.5 or better. I saw the DAYS and NIGHTS in the end but then it was really difficult for me to get to the solution. I kept wanting my MOVIE NIGHT to be PRIVATE (mainly because I mistrusted a K in a word) and my MIDNIGHT to be the hours when I changed the clock. I also have to admit that until I read these comments I did not get the "40" - would have made accepting NOAH'S ARK much easier in my mind (despite the discussion that it was not actually 40 days). Heck it might have taken 40 days to construct the meta! Brilliant Mikey!

I failed to land this one, on Ararat or any other mountain for that matter! I didn't find the alternate for "movie night" (thought it led to "eye", but knew that was a stretch) and "hey day", and was unable to make sense of what I had found. After revealing the answer, I'm still mystified by what "movie night" led to, but I love the way the title fits in.

Brilliant! For future folks who solve with partial extraction, in grid order: Normal / Everyday (Commonplace), Othello / Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Play), Alp / Hey Day (Certain Peak), Homerun / Opening Day (Baseball fans love it), Sky / Midnight (Shade of blue), Adios / Goodnight (Parting expression), Rush / Same Day (Speedy kind of delivery), Kite / Movie Night (It can be held in a park).