Cracked Cheesecakes?

After years of making cheesecakes, Blair (youngest daughter) introduced me to the "trick" of using a water bath to cook cheesecakes. Tried it on the Lemon Curd Cheesecake, and the result was "fantabulous."
A second thing I've learned is to have everything at room temperature and to NOT overbeat. This incorporates a lot of extra air that will cause the cake to "puff."
For more on cheesecake cooking, see Cheesecake-101.