SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD 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”