Joseph Knecht

  Tall Tales Tall tales are often based on real people and real events, but those who tell them reveal a tendency to ... 62A. Embellish the truth, and what the sets of circled letters do?: SPIN A TALE .   Yes, this puzzle has CIRCLES !  I know that some of you are not big fans of circles (and you know who you are 😁), but try to imagine how you would have described this puzzle's theme without them.  You may  recall today's constructor Catherine Cetta's last puzzle in which she used the phrase CHANGE AGENT to reveal what was obvious to all (but regrettably not to this reviewer 🙁), that the word AGENT had been scrambled into each of the theme fills.  In today's puzzle she has packaged the word TALE in 4 pairs of 2x2 boxes across 2 consecutive fill lines and then SPUN it by a single letter for each successive pair.  IMHO that arrangement wasn't easy to construct. Please post any suggestions in the comments as to how this theme co...

  It's What We Do Anybody who has worked in IT will tell you that if a program exhibits a new bug the first question you ask is "What changed?".  And if constructor Catherine Cetta 's theme for this puzzle bugged you, you need to do the same thing -- or as she puts it in her reveal fill you need to find the ... 58A. Modern innovator, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues: CHANGE AGENT . Each of the themers contains a word that causes change.  In some cases it's more than one word ... 16A. *Period of connectivity that began in the 1990s: INTERNET AGE .  We all know that AGE changes us, but even more than that it could certainly be argued that the INTERNET AGE is the most powerful change agent in recent times,  beginning in 1965 and accelerating today at an ever increasing pace ... The Internet ...