You are ALERTING that you are ALTERING a TRIANGLE ?

I think she's saying she's angling to hang someone from a large barrel. She has a high pot n' noose.

DISTRACTION Driving on ice

DISABUSE - make fun of the way I do sit-ups

DISCONTENT - disparage the way the prisoners erected their camp shelter

DISPARAGE - it's shameful how long it's been since Augusta National Golf Course reassessed the difficulty of the various holes

DIORAMA - choose between the Princess of Wales and the American Medical Association

DIABOLIC When anabolism and catabolism are out of balance

ANTIGONE When your Greek mother's sister leaves.

PS: It could be the American Motorcycle Association of the Academy of Model Aeronautics in your last one, Hab. I guess it depends on whom you hang out with. They're all superb, however!

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DISCOVER - time to play Side B

Or:

It's 1970s dancing in the springtime

Or:

What the late royal wore after taking up with the Harrod's scion

DIAL Spanish for what comes after Day K

TRIAL - Hirt, Gore, and Unser

TRIVIAL Three little bottles

TRICEPS - Hagrid's dog Fluffy

TRISTAN Laurel, Kubrick, and Tucci

IMPROVIZATION - "Every day in every way I am getting better and better."

DINERO - two fiddlin' Roman emperors

DIVEST - According to Hyman Kaplan, what you get when you buy a suit, along with dicoat and dipants.

DIRECT - the Hesperus and the Mary Deare

DIRECT? Not a terrible place in Connecticut?

DIVEST? Not an Old English present perfect word for Jump in the water?

DRUM What one makes out of d sugar cane, mon!

I like your DIRECT!

I hear we won’t be able to get our COVID-19 vaccinations until late in the spring,” he said with DISMAY.

"I like to pull the wings off pteryodactyls," said the DINOSAUR.

Maybe that should have been "I pulled the wings off a couple of pterodactyls," said the DINOSAUR. Adds a couple of extra layers.

Said the Italian: I didn't see her, but DINOSAUR

DISSACCHARIDE - "You didn't like the way I acted out that phrase without using any words, did you?" she said sweetly. (with her British accent)

DICHOTOMY Wow! A two-place hammock!

DIMINISHES - IDISHEMS

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DIOGENES There were two Ogenes brothers
Orrrr. a pair of ogenes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogene

I think I don’t understand DICHOTOMY - would you parse it for me? (unless it’s too dirty for prime time)

Di (two, or in this instance, two-place)) cot. Oh, my!

Don't feel bad; it was three am before I associated Agatha Christie with "die, ssacharide."

Now, getting REALLY oblique, DILBERT Murdering Mr Hubbard via poisoned cartoon character.

I thought it was Ron, not Robert. Is that wrong?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbert_Hubbard Thus, "Die, Elbert."

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Originally posted by Geoff:
Di (two, or in this instance, two-place)) cot. Oh, my!

Don't feel bad; it was three am before I associated Agatha Christie with "die, ssacharide."
...

Actually, I meant to invoke "Dis a charade" as uttered by Eliza Doolittle ( "ā", not "ī")...

And I have only just now learned about your fin-de-siècle Hubbard. Until now the only ones I knew of were L.Ron, the sci-fi author (and other notorieties), and Old Mother, the hungry-dog owner. Live and learn, I always say.

DIANATwo of each daily

DIVIDE - the Pope's stereoscopic vision (diplopia, if you prefer)

DIVINE Merlot and chardonnay grapes.

DISCORD It's one point for for the princess