Jafe

who knew the decisive hint would be "please read hint"

looking into the various USS North Carolinas again... although unsure how the gameplay part would be relevant there

finnish is /'jɑfe/

in english? /'dʒæfi/, rhymes with taffy

wasn't expecting capital punishment

Do and Haiku seem like good names for Busta Rhymes's next kid, Do Haiku Rhymes

hey, i started calling myself "jafe" in like the second grade... finnish does not use the letter F apart from weird loanwords like tofu

kanye's daughter is North but not sure how good of an example he is of reasonable naming considering his other kids are Saint, Chicago and Psalm

hmm actually that might be rubbish... think any ball still on the table is in play but only the ball you're supposed to hit next is on

e.g. in snooker if a ball is in play it's "on"

could it be that "in play" just clues a synonym and whatever the carolina part is it's separate

still confused about the c4 but i think the sixth letter is S

if they ever make deadpool 4 they should include an alternative-universe team of claymation deadpools from france named les claypools

hehe

still don't see what the answer could be but imma go ahead and start kicking myself in advance

however i know next to nothing about that team and wikipedia isn't proving immediately helpful

the pro sports teams are called just carolina so, assuming "north carolina" is a unit, i think the college basketball team is the #1 meaning in the sports context

yeah

nice use of "divers", hehe

it begins.

with "these" in the clue

it'd need to be plural, though

apropos of nothing, the term "ghost of christmas present" sounds like santa lost a toy one time and now he's haunted by it

CATS is the right number of letters and is plural but neither of cinats, caints, catins looks good

maybe it's the word IN penned by the name of a play

Carolina North

well, yeah... "pens" could be a container indicator but it can't simultaneously be the definition unless the whole thing is both

just need to find out why carolina may have feces in play, really

makes sense

easy to test @oAlt?

i'm off to bed as well, md5 of the answer all-lowercase is 627b30a713d41bcf4a7bb4765c90bd9e

CCCC: Snow White actor Michael has company over (7)

i was going to bed but guess one more won't hurt heeh

S+now<

actually wrote "acted" before checking... holy cow the guy is still churning out action films at 64

hehe yeah that was a pretty fortunate find

yep

CCCC: A Belgian who acts wrongly, a lame emu, and JD Vance (4-6,3,5)

a+B_+d(I)cate*

full circle!

yup!

CCCC: Lake in the middle of month: Unproductive (4)

id(L.)es

for the record it was his third handled as producer... if you count films directed the number goes up

yup!

i could fiddle with the wording for another minute but who has that kinda time

CCCC: The Beginning is third production handled by Bay (8)

LP breaking as = ALPS, a swiss supercomputer

if spanish people had a similar holiday it could be called spanksgiving

the 13th is about 50% done... time to slack off for 10 days and then panic