Joseph Knecht

  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...

  Green, Green, it's Green They Say This is constructor Micah Sommersmith's second outing with the LA Times, the previous one being August 9, 2022, reviewed by our favorite feline .  Micah describes himself as "a musician, crossword constructor, and generally curious individual".  Here's his website .   Today he presents us with a straightforward theme, revealed by 5 theme clues consisting of the word GREEN , and filled by idioms and metaphors: 16A. Green: BURNING WITH ENVY .  ENVY is often confused with JEALOUSY , but they are quite different emotions.   As nouns the difference between envy and jealousy is that envy is resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions) while jealousy is (uncountable) a state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc, from fears of infidelity. - WikiDiff. 21A. Green: PUTTING AREA ....

  Silent Movie - The Card Game Rabbit Rabbit.  Care to try your luck at cards? Husband and wife team Hoang-Kim Vu and Jessica Zetzman are veteran constructors for the NYT and Vu has published here as recently as last Thursday .  But today is their first pairing on the Corner. and they have some new tricks up their sleeves.  We'd better start by calling 'em: 62A . With 66-Across , images played in silent films, and what one might use to play the games in the first parts of the answers to the starred clues?: TITLE . 66A . See 62-Across : CARDS . Spreading their themers on the table, we quickly see the names of 4 films or videos that begin with the TITLE of a CARD game: 23A. *Channing Tatum film series featuring strippers: MAGIC MIKE . Bling wise this clue was not a good opening.   No trailer for this one, as I'm sure Merl Reagle would agree that a flick on male strippers wouldn't pass the Margaret Farrar "Sunday Mor...