Joseph Knecht

   22A Rocker since the '60s, familiarly: STONE .   We interrupt this review to bring you a special report on a STONE known familiarly as Charlie , and the news of a MILESTONE in music history, the passing of Charles Robert Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021) , jazz bandleader and also the drummer for the Rolling Stones.   Charlie died with Shirley, his devoted wife of 57 years, by his side . He was the quiet CORNER STONE of the "World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band".  He was no "Jack Flash", but rather the gentile, soft-spoken, and in fact humble STONE .   Here is the interview Dash T posted on the Corner on the day Charlie died.  Below is Part 1 of an interview with him by drummer Chad Smith :  May Charlie Rest in Peace. And now we return to our regular programming, a review of PUZZLEUS INTERRUPTUS George Jasper is a regular contributor ...

    Follow the Money Tomas Spiers , our constructor today, invites us to do what all the solvers in the mystery shows do, that is "Follow the Money!".  I tried tracking down Tomas on the Net, but as he doesn't leave a trace, this could be his debut puzzle, for the LAT at least.  Perhaps Lemony or HG could weigh in on that. Tomas gives us 4 themers for "Money", all filled with common synonyms or slang for " Legal Tender for all debts, public or private ". 20A. Money for a visit to the Colonel?: CHICKEN TENDER .  "the Colonel" is of course a reference to Colonel Harlan Sanders , the founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain.  But if you want really TENDER chickens you need to get them from a TOUGH man, like Frank Perdue .  Perdue raises his own breed of chickens on on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay: Some people contend that the run off from poultry farms on the shore have made it T...