Perfect Settings - Harpers June 2020

[norrin2]

I got this one pretty quickly. Unlike a lot of Harpers puzzles, there were no uncommon words.

[ChrisKochmanski]

Soon after starting, I thought, "I don't think I'll get this one," but then I noticed a bit of something emerging, and then I thought, "Could it be that he (Richard E. Maltby, Jr.) is getting at (BLANK)?" -- and it fairly quickly emerged that yes, indeed, he was. One of those cases where an early guess proved correct. So the puzzle rolled from there.

REMJ characterized one entry as uncommon, but I didn't encounter it until near the end, so it didn't slow me down much.