The BBC Music Magazine
PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 368
The first correct solution of our crossword picked at random will win a copy of The Oxford Companion to Music. A runner-up will win The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis (see oup.co.uk). Send answers to: BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 368/Jan, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 20 Jan 2022 (solution in Apr 2022 issue).
ACROSS
9 A piano expert offering allegro? (5) 10 Observed one with maximum energy backing Associated
Board candidates? (9)
11 Possibly mutely choosing to accept nothing in cultural study (15)
12 Those people back King and I
– business gets operetta (3,6) 13 Band retains source of mega successful recording (5)
15 Working to block unimaginative augmented fourth (7)
18 Diminished major music award, dismissing my pointed comment? (7)
20 Swedish mezzo in fur? (5) 22 Surpasses overture from Ireland or overture from Stenhammar (9) 25 Instrument classification scheme: instrument supervisor mostly reassigned the class (10-5)
26 Sour fellow to keep preserving form of fugue? (4,5)
27 Pianist arrives with a ukulele initially (5)
DOWN
1 Part in Offenbach? Part touted
in error (10)
2 European keeping quiet over hard
Strauss opera (6)
3 Male voice new in make-up of
one trio (8)
4 In France I picked up entertainment
with a Janácek opera (6)
5 Opening of piece, perhaps,
capturing it for male singer (8)
6 Children beginning to sing,
following sort of key (6)
7 Sophisticated edition taken up by
bass, broadcasting (8)
8 Observe limits to effortless
playability (4)
14 Husband queues excitedly to take in widely appealing music
– a caprice? (10)
16 Pause in concerts I note shifting
later? Very into that (8)
17 Unruffled boy’s good in church
music (8)
19 European pop star is agile, dancing
with last of fans (8)
21 Implore Beckmesser to conceal
ancient viol? (6)
23 Piano pedagogue with hesitation linking Czech Republic and
New York (6)
24 Sustains piece by Riley using repeated sequences, primarily (6) 25 Hired performer has reduced terminations of music work (4)
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