June prize crossword No. 308
The first correct solution of our monthly crossword to be picked at random will win a copy of The Oxford Companion to Music worth £40 (available at bookstores or www.oup.co.uk). Send your answers to: BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 308, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 15 June 2017 (solution in our September 2017 issue). Crossword set by Paul Henderson
ACROSS
1 Longish maracas reconstituted as a different instrument (5,9) 9 Covering openings for musicologists and theorists (3) 10 Last of choreographers orders cast to dance as Romeo and Juliet? (4-7) 11 Any opening in Lucerne etc could become an indication of potential (7) 12 Orchestrate again most of remainder with heart (7) 13 Garment topped off with fedora? (5,5) 15 Friend securing English carillon (4) 17 Deep sound evident in tubas, say (4) 19 High-class part London seeing off a boy ultimately crazy for musical (2,4,4) 22 Incompetent theatre’s last to engage equipment team (7) 23 I’d a lot of blues arranged in form suitable for listeners (7) 24 Complete sort of big-band music already under way (2,4,5) 25 Ethiopian prince seen in half of operas (3) 26 Pianist I hear with a couple of numbers arranged i.e. song from 19 (3,4,2,5)
DOWN
2 Black bird turning up in sheltered area in Beatles song (3,2,2) 3 American opera has risen, including numbers supporting America (8) 4 Exclamation about a volume deep in tone (5) 5 Fugal passage mostly resonant, a trace disordered (9) 6 Allegro, boisterous, involving windplayer (6) 7 Horn is misplaced before end of passage not far into La mer? (7) 8 Conductor laying out clean, dry tunes (5,8) 9 Poet with allurement (including books) beginning to tempt US composer (6,7) 14 Plays on roughly, without hesitation, being no expert (9) 16 Type of jazz, say, with a piano - positive one’s good for the country! (5,3) 18 50s music mostly allowed on boat (7) 20 One high voice cut short by a twisted composer (7) 21 Old man takes on jazz great (a dish) (6) 23 A line rearranged in Goldsmith film score (5)