Joseph Knecht

    I Got You On Tape! Spinning for the Cause ( lyrics ) Amie Walker is making her 17th appearance on the Corner, the first on June 17, 2022 reviewed by Lemonade .  Today she is spinning 3 fragments of theme fill each spanning 2 lines and unified by circles, just like last Thursday.  As there are a total of 6 clues with theme elements I'll just leave them where they are and start with the reveal followed by the grid ... 56A. "I can prove you're lying!," and an instruction for reading each set of circled letters: ROLL THE TAPE .  Without the circles it would be pretty difficult to figure out what's happening (Hand up if you can think of an alternate reveal without them).  OTOH , it's now pretty obvious what's going on.  If I didn't know better I'd think that Amie had lifted the theme from the title of the splash screen song Spinning for the Cause, by our house band I Got You On Tape .  "Spinning" is of course the occupation of professi...

    That's Entertainment!   lyrics  Today constructor Jeff Stillman steps into the spotlight for his 51st appearance on the Corner, and entertains us with a bit of slight-of-hand.  The rare solver, who will remain anonymous, may be disappointed that Jeff conceals his tricks in ( horrors! ) , circles.  But I think the former's time for today's puzzle would not have been as lightning fast (as I'm sure it was) without them.  The rest us, incapable of solving 3 dimensional crossword puzzles in our heads, would probably have been AT SEA . Since each of the three themers consist of single letters spread across two consecutive lines and 4 consecutive columns we'll start with the grid ... And here's Jeff's reveal ... 64A. Hollywood honors since 1995, and what the circled letters are?: SAG AWARDS .  The honors he is referring two are those of the Screen Actors Guild A...

  Choose Your Weapon! Today marks veteran constructor Susan Gelfand's 28th appearance on the Corner.   She challenges us with a simple, playful theme with three clues that hearken back to  a 1950's TV show set in the early 1800 hundreds when Southern California was still a Spanish territory .  It was an era when lawless men roamed the land unopposed by duly appointed law enforcement officers. But there arose a masked swordsman , a fox cunning and free, who swashbuckled his way thru the land righting the injustices of local petty tyrants.  Zorro was a good humored soul and he never seemed to actually skewer anyone, preferring instead to humiliate them by autographing their clothing with his first initial ... So how does this relate to Susan's theme?  Her reveal challenges us to determine his weapon of choice ... 56A. Art of fencing, and a hint to the starts of the answers to the starred...