CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 French organist candid about

key with no sharps or flats (6) 4 German musician pens article

for caste members (8)

9 Cart driver’s “Ring” picked up by opera writer (7)

11 Stallone movie’s score writer

(3,4)

12 Heard U.K. composer (7) 13 Magnificent movement of

Elgar? (5)

15 Paint part of the

name“Lehar”(6)

16 English anthemist in Scottish

loch’s proximity (8)

19 One single German genius

reversed part (8)

21 Cultivate U.S. tunesmith (6) 24 Pronounced Hungarian

pianist’s tips (5)

26 English musician turned up

Ravel’s first room (7)

28 Czech maestro bad at names (7) 29 Went too far with Verdi in Old

Dutch (7) 30 “Montezuma”composer’s

recording times (8) 31 Like some modern symphonies,

confused an alto (6)

DOWN

1 Bird group awful

to listen to (4)

2 Mixed bag: real math (7) 3 Strange ten-pieced clawbearing arthropod (9)

5 Took back a statement about

slang education (8)

6 Agitated promoter? (5) 7 Snarled at fish (7)

8 Tender from riding sleds, rode a

convertible (6-4) 10 Proper-sounding ceremony (4) 14 Indonesian island saint among

the woman’s healers (10)

17 U.S. president’s first lady left in

resting place (9)

18 Company with male prairie

grouse (8)

20 Those who throw

little rollers (7)

22 Spartan queen in French style

from a Spanish city (7) 23 Legendary ship’s load of freight

behind the bow (4)

25 Wise guy did laps at

the pool by one (5)

27 Pop star not doing much,

according to hearsay (4)