Words: 17
Average Length: 4.94
Difficulty: Legato
Pop, rock, rap, jazz, classical, reggae, and old technology, all in a tidy 7×7 package. This one should be quick, easy, and (I hope) fun!
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Tag: Easy crossword
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Mostly Musical Mini 10
Words: 19
Average Length: 4.63
Difficulty: Easy like Sunday morning
I’ve crammed some the biggest names in musical entertainment, spanning pop, classic rock, indie, grunge, and calypso, into an adorable 7×7 grid. You can’t find value like that anywhere else, folks. Solve and enjoy!
Words: 72
Average Length: 5.00
Difficulty: A beach read, but on a somewhat windy day
I’m fascinated by the weekly “By the Book” column in the New York Times. If you don’t know it, every week a guest author responds to several questions about favorites, preferences, organization of their book collections, etc. One of the questions is something like “If you could invite any 3 authors, living or dead, to a dinner party, who would they be and why?”
Why stop at 3, I thought, and why not make a puzzle about it? Even better, why not have the theme entries be the most appropriate dishes for each author to bring? (The party morphed into a potluck.)
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Mostly Musical Mini 7
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Mostly Musical Mini 2
Words: 18 (7×7)
Average Length: 5.00
Difficulty: Für Elise-like
I’m not sure whether these will become a regular mid-week addition, but here’s the second in a possibly extended series of musical minis. This one is considerably easier than the one last week and features cameos from Ravel, two Bachs, the Andrews Sisters, Katy Perry, and the Grateful Dead, among others.
Words: 79 (16×15 grid)
Average Length: 4.96
Difficulty: Like a fine romance – mostly easy with a few bumps along the way
Happy Valentine’s Day! I’ll let Ella Fitzgerald (1 Across) take it from here with her fantastic version of “My Funny Valentine,” available here.
Words: 74
Average Length: 4.95
Difficulty: Mostly easy listening with an occasional #9 chord
After several months, here’s another Set List puzzle. (The first two are available here and here.) As the note says, assume these musicians are playing a concert together (Bruce gets two songs because he’s Bruce, after all). Bruce starts it off, Bryan Adams continues, and the songs run into each other. Your job is to figure out the set list. Please enjoy, share, etc. Next up (1/9) will be a tough themeless.
Words: 78
Average Length: 4.74
Difficulty: In inverse proportion to 2021 …
… that is, assuming your 2021 was as challenging as most people’s. This grid shouldn’t put up too much of a battle: I didn’t want to make it difficult to uncover my New Year’s wish for y’all. So solve the puzzle, share it, enjoy your New Year’s celebration if that’s your thing, and come back next week (Jan. 2!) for the inaugural puzzle of 2022 (a “Set List” puzzle where you have to figure out the song titles in a concert of musicians who might not ordinarily play together).
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Recording Artists
Words: 76
Average Length: 4.92
Difficulty: 2.5 out of 5 (easy fill and challenging theme answers)
This puzzle dares to answer the question, “What happens when great painters hear great songs?” Please enjoy and share. Next up (10/17) will be a Goofy Themeless.
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