September 29, 2022,Thursday,MaryEllen Uthlaut
Quiet Cities Incidental music for the Irwin Shaw play Quiet City Aaron Copeland, 1939 By my count this is constructor MaryEllen Uthlaut ' s 20th appearance in the LA Times, the last one a Sunday puzzle on August 14, 2022 . She also contributes to the New York times . The 5 themers are clued with descriptions of small cities with some unusual inhabitants, and each is filled with a common town name suffix, prefixed by a word that results in an idiom or metaphor. As these cities are not well advertised, I call them QUIET CITIES : 17A. City for delinquent library patrons?: FINE POINT . Not to put too FINE a POINT on it, but my DOWN FALL started when I figured out that it was cheaper to buy books than to pay all my library fines. My eventual undoing was the accursed Amazon 1-click. 25A. City for look-alikes?: DOUBLE PARK . Legendary "look...