Johnny

There has lately been a tendency for clues like 60A not to highlight in yellow the answers to the starred clues. This just makes it more confusing.

Chicago has been a popular band for decades ("25 or 6 to 4"; "If You Leave Me Now," etc., etc.). It's original name and first album were "Chicago Transit Authority." For a while it had Jimi Hendrix' favorite guitarist: Terry Kath. I may be the only one with this problem, but I cannot remember the rows or columns of the starred clues. Could you please highlight them with a color.

In addition to Truman working at the Kansas City Star, Ernest Hemingway got his start there.

Must be one of the most fortuitous timings of an invention in history: the fortepiano just before the lives of Mozart and Beethoven. Imagine their piano concertos on a harpsichord.

Until I knew the theme, I thought "latex" was a deadbeat dad.