Words: 16 (7×7)
Average Length: 5.00
This one goes from the Renaissance to today, with stops for Vivaldi, Tina Turner, a famous Irish playwright, and a classic French film.
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Tag: Music
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Streaming Tunes
Words: 79 (16×15)
Average Length: 5.01
Every so often, when angling for a theme, I cast my line once again into the musical deeps. For today’s puzzle, I landed four tunes (18, 25, 41, and 52 Across) whose titles fit nicely into a piece that premiered three centuries ago (66 Across). I hope the solving experience is smooth sailing!
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Sole Music
Words: 74
Average Length: 4.95
Over the years, I’ve constructed puzzles about music and food, music and fathers, music and the rainbow, music and boys, music and women, music and plants, music and food, music and reptiles, music and transportation, music and weather, music and the letter z, musicians’ side hustles, music and aging, musicians opening restaurants (one of my favorite puzzles), music and art, music and animals, music and flowers, and “American” music, not to mention 33 “mostly musical minis” and 5 “set list” puzzles.
What’s left? How about music and gaits, the theme of today’s offering. So run, walk, or whatever, and enjoy the solve!
In memoriam of the death of Pope Francis, a great and good man, here’s a link to a tongue-in-cheek puzzle I posted about the papacy 4 years ago, which in turn was based on a puzzle I constructed in 2013 upon Pope France’s elevation.
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Paternal Music
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Apologies to Nick et al
Words: 76
Average Length: 4.71
A couple of months ago I posted a mini, “Entertaining Women,” whose theme entries were bands with names containing the word “Girls.” I figured I’d construct a matching mini for the following week featuring band names with the word “Boys.” Once I started collecting theme answers, though, I realized there were more than enough such band names for a full-sized puzzle.
A word about the grid: I break one of the fundamental rules of crossword construction – the revealer includes a word that’s in the clue for each theme answer. Apologies to any purists!
Any resemblance of the black squares in the middle of the grid to a man is unintentional and, frankly, beyond my capabilities if I’d tried. But it’s still kind of cool given the theme!
Words: 42 (11×11)
Average Length: 4.81
This puzzle is my entry to the Crosshare monthly midi contest (theme: music; I promise I didn’t pay anyone to choose that, but thanks, Sommersmith!). If you’re not yet familiar with Crosshare (crosshare.org), it’s a wonderful online community for independent crossword constructors, as well as for people who enjoy solving puzzles by independent crossword constructors.
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Forecasts in Four Four Time
Words: 79 (15×16 grid)
Average Length: 4.96
To quote the endlessly quotable Bob Dylan, “you don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.” (“Subterranean Homesick Blues”). A musical meteorologist will do just fine, as this puzzle reveals.
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