Crossword and Quiz

The first correct solution of our crossword picked at random will win a copy of The Oxford Companion to Music. A runnerup will win Who Knew? Answers to Questions about Classical Music (see www.oup.co.uk). Send answers to: BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 349/Aug, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 6 Aug 2020 (solution in Nov 2020 issue).

ACROSS

1 Indication of harmony – guide brass at sea following key of one flat? (7,4)

7 American piece – Rodeo – lad

arranged (2,6)

8 Belgian composer candid about

contralto (6)

10 Celebrations always backed

by LSO? Not quite (6)

11 No threats now in article with three lines about college musical appreciation (3-5) 12 Darling, $1,000 will get you a

small piano (4,5)

15 Strauss hero in work on some

ground? (4)

16 Some composer I clue

– Whitacre? (4)

17 Broadcast medium with a

Rossini hero in place (9) 19 Composer – 16, vain,

possibly (8)

21 Chunk taken out of baton almost, following Schoenberg piece? (6)

23 Provide new singers for start and end of cantata amongst others (6)

24 Ankle was wrenched in

ballet (4,4)

25 Music-hall star to pester

someone offering praise (5,6)

DOWN

1 Risqué music venue providing oglers with freebie, possibly (6,7)

2 Good to wander widely in

dictionary (5)

3 Gives new role to singer upset

after interruption by fool (9) 4 Radio broadcast involving a bit

of music is a model (7) 5 Permitted to skip first entry in

Liszt? That’s dreadful (5) 6 Artistical playing after I ignored Italian composer

(or his son) (9)

9 Saxophonist in career mostly

like harp playing? (7,6) 13 Composer bringing in a cleaner

for another composer (9) 14 Operatic ‘doctor’ enlivened

drama with a lot of luck (9) 18 Greatly desiring to see second

amongst five sextets (7) 20 Dispose of remains of

Vivaldi concerto after opening’s lost (5)

22 Drunk upset most of Fidelio (5)