SPRING IN YOUR STEP
An order from Gimbels department store helped elevate sales of these sticks, a 1920s fad
pogo stick
This 1973 Lois Duncan thriller was turned into a 1997 slasher film with Jennifer Love Hewitt
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Pharoah or Leno
Jay
It's not anything space-y but a malted dairy product that gave its name to this candy bar first sold in 1924
Milky Way
An improvement in a hotel room or airline seat
upgrade
A nursery rhyme concerns nimble, quick Jack & this feat of his
jump over the candlestick
The nonfiction "The Boys of Summer", about the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s, mentions this ballpark in the subtitle
Ebbets Field
A jolly escapade, or a prank
a lark
Sam Panopoulos gave this name to the pizza he created; it's been called a "Canadian treasure" & "a Polynesian perversion"
Hawaiian Pizza
A good place to pitch a tent
The reptile Phrynocephalus guttatus can jump 8 inches, so a group would qualify for this Little Orphan Annie catchphrase
leapin' lizards!
Cousins Beach is the setting for "The Summer" I did this, the basis for an Amazon Prime series
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Any New Zealander
This British dessert was first used to liven up some leftover cake with booze; its name also means "something of little significance"
a trifle
This cork-firing child's toy makes a particular sound
pop gun
Call it puma, cougar or by this 2-word name, it has a 40-foot horizontal & 20-foot vertical leap
mountain lion
R.L. Stine takes a stab at the bard with his horror tale called "A Midsummer Night's" this
Scream
A poke in the buttocks
goose
Andrew Zimmern's website notes that this portmanteau of a dish goes by the moniker "three-bird roast" in the United Kingdom
The turducken
Many a Victorian tale featured one of these young women employed in a retail store
a shop girl
There's bouncing & leaping aplenty in "AlegrÃa", called this troupe's most iconic show
Cirque du Soleil
"Farewell Summer" was this sci-fi author's 2006 sequel to "Dandelion Wine", written almost 50 years before
Ray Bradbury
Type of number like 1 or 7
cardinal
A 1940 ad in the Australian Women's Weekly recommended one teaspoon of this spread "for good health & digestion"
Vegemite
Ahoy, mateys! Scurry aloft & haul in these sails high, high up on the masts
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