Joseph Knecht

Lido Shuffle Today's constructor Amie Walker treats us to a sans circles, embedded, scrambled word theme.  We'll start with the reveal ... 58. Boz Scaggs hit with the lyric "One more for the road," and what can be found in 17-, 23-, 37-, and 48-Across?:  LIDO SHUFFLE .  The song was co-written by  David Paich  and was released on Scaggs'  1976 album  Silk Degrees  ...   Scaggs describes the origins of the work : "'Lido Shuffle was a song that I'd been banging around and I took the idea of the shuffle from a song that Fats Domino did called 'The Fat Man' that had a kind of driving shuffle beat that I used to play on the piano, and I just started kind of singing along with it. Then I showed it to  David Paich   and he helped me fill it out. It ended up being 'Lido Shuffle.'"  Among other things the title is a play on card shuffling  or life on the road , but the word Lido has many meanings . Here are the themers ... 17A. P...

  WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Today's veteran constructors Emma Lawson and Amie Walke r present us with another vertical theme, sans circles or stars, but this one is a little dark. The reveal starts on the first row at 10D , so we know what's going on pretty much out of the gate ...  10. Creedence Clearwater Revival hit with the line "I see trouble on the way," or what can be found in three long Down entries: BAD MOON RISING .  A song all about what could go wrong -- this MOON is not only BAD , it's RISING ! (well maybe) ... Credence Clearwater Revival (things eventually went wrong with them) 8. Return correspondence?: RANS OM NO TE .  Clever clue, terrible business ... Kidnap and Ransom 18. Bella Hadid and Precious Lee, for two: FASHI ON MO DELS .  Fashion models with last name Hadid are becoming crosswordese -- last Thursday we had Gigi (see 59D), this week we have Bella ....

    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...