THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC
Mike Ellison, of Henderson, Nev., works in business analytics. Before that, he majored in music education and served as a band director, hence the theme you see here. This puzzle has a rare double revealer, found at 42- and 52-Down, which cleverly sums up the wordplay.
ACROSS
1 Cartoondom’s ‘‘Princess of Power’’
6 Flat formation
10 Jockish sort
13 Short request at a
salon?
19 What a conductor might wear to a concert
20 Ice cream parlor
request
22 Gazing angrily
23 Split
24 One of a trio
of famous tenors
25 ‘‘Breaking Bad’’ and ‘‘The Wire,’’ for example
26 Comparative that’s an inadvisable starting choice in Wordle
27 Tableau
28 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s only musical written for TV
30 Zenith’s opposite
32 Talk smack about
34 Mangy mutt
35 Disney voice
role for Idina Menzel 36 Some kicks
38 Exec in tech
40 Pollen carrier
42 Like many roofs
46 What Beethoven’s next symphony would have been
48 Some
53 Needle holder
54 Reference online
55 Percussive shaker
56 ____ Colonies, communal society that went on to form an appliance company 57 1988 No. 1 country
hit for Randy Travis 60 Bumpkin
61 Locale for one leg of the Triple Crown of Motorsport
63 Grammy-winning
Beyoncé hit of 2009 64 Staccato marking
66 ____ Smith, drummer
for Alice Cooper
67 With 76-Across, genre for Fall Out Boy
68 Classical singers?
70 Slopes attire
resembling overalls 73 New wave’s Adam
____
74 First word when
thanking Mr. Roboto 76 See 67-Across
77 Lennon who co-wrote the Oscar-winning short ‘‘War Is Over!’’ 78 Admits
80 Settings for timers
82 Rapper who shares part of his name with the world’s tallest building
86 Golf gimme
87 Robert Matthew
Van ____, real name of rap’s Vanilla Ice
89 Sweetened cornmeal
in Mexican cuisine
90 Mounted on
92 Amount after
deductions
93 Expels
94 Hats worn by
Napoleon
95 Steely Dan hit that charted for 19 straight weeks
97 Brief instant
98 Kind of billiards
with no pockets
99 Musical’s beginning 103 Buster
105 Like bossa nova or
salsa
107 Question asked in a ‘‘Les Misérables’’ song
111 Classic tune inspiring a joke about eels
114 ‘‘Toodles’’
116 Marsalis family
patriarch
118 Mark who played
Luke Skywalker
119 Doctor’s note,
perhaps
121 ‘‘Easy on Me’’ singer 122 Narrow soccer
victory
123 Musical slide
124 Female fox
125 Guitar cords?
126 Ages upon ages
127 Exxonmobil
brand, abroad
128 Necessity for beer or
bread
DOWN
1 Rouse
2 Chinese province known for its spicy cuisine
3 What guacamole
often costs
4 Get hitched again
5 Groupies, e.g.
6 Beatles hairdos
7 Written in code?
8 Cuts off
9 Flexible position
10 ‘‘That’s such a
bummer!’’
11 Campus mil. program 12 ____ chiasm, section at the lower front part of the brain
13 Disorienting thing
to wake up from
14 Fabled monster
15 Trumpet
16 Bumpy ride?
17 Eurasian mountain
range
18 Pioneer in electricity 21 Gradually increase
in volume
29 Small lump
31 Irritate
33 Suspicious, informally 37 Actress Russell
of ‘‘The Americans’’ 39 Quattro x due
41 Marketplace originally called Auctionweb
42 Cut back . . . or an alternative title for this puzzle?
43 Bit of living room
footage
44 ‘‘I’ll be with you
shortly’’
45 Singing Simone
46 Cash coffers
47 Whose performances were as astonishing as all get-out?
49 Hotel-room freebie
50 Go driving
51 Destroyer of a
castle, perhaps
52 Autumn colors . . . or an alternative title for this puzzle? 54 Term in both finance and linguistics
58 Gladys Knight’s
backup group
59 Weep
62 Scotch sampling
65 Twirling one’s hair,
e.g.
69 Part of a Battleship
guess
70 Some special ops
personnel
71 Vegetable with
a ‘‘dinosaur’’ variety 72 Like musical mixes that overly emphasize bass notes
75 Doing mess hall duties, for short
77 Featured
performances
79 One of a trio of
famous Catherines 81 Hit (with), as a fine 83 Closes, as a suitcase 84 Prepare to pop
the question
85 Science exhibition 88 Audience, to an
advertiser
91 Barge type
94 Trees that can grow
multiple acres wide 96 Grocery checkout
staple
98 Some Olds of old
99 Eldest of the Three
Musketeers
100 Gregorian song
101 More subdued
102 1986 autobiography of the ‘‘Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll’’ 104 Comic pianist known as the ‘‘Clown Prince of Denmark’’
106 To the point
108 Throwback hit
109 Speaker’s voice?
110 Jazz trumpeter
Davis
112 Goof
113 Corporate move, for
short
115 Footwear retailer
founded in Montreal 117 Email folder
120 ‘‘The end’’