NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD
THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC
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”