A musical-themed crossword puzzle, created exclusively for Halftime Magazine. Here is the March/April 2016 installment.
| ACROSS 1. The Stars and Stripes Forever composer 6. 2015 World Series winners (in Back to the Future Part II) 10. Oh well, in more poetic terms 14. Possessed 15. ___ three ships …(2 words) 16. Boxer’s pre-bout wrap 17. Piano foot lever 18. Big hairy brass instrument for the spider band? 20. ___-Cone (summer treat) 21. Hockey surface 23. Sphere 24. Fleming who created James Bond 25. CEO’s degree, sometimes 26. Like a messy bed 28. Madness’s musical genre 30. Abbey resident 32. Fantastic Four actress Jessica 35. Marching pattern for the spider band? (4 words) 40. Belly-laugh syllable 41. Note after fa 42. John Lennon’s widow Yoko ___ 43. Little Rhody school (abbrev.) 44. How the spider band keeps track of where they are? (3 words) 48. General ___ chicken (Chinese dish) 49. Australian flightless bird 50. Singer Lana Del ___ 51. Late-night host Jimmy 55. Pick a card, ___ card 57. L.A.-to-San Diego direction (abbrev.) 59. Stimpy’s canine pal 60. Boxer Muhammad who could sting like a bee 61. Cry out loud 64. Media for the spider band to show their performances? (2 words) 67. Accra is its capital 69. State home to The Marching Utes 70. Barking sounds 71. ___ looking at you, kid 72. Fourth planet from the sun 73. Artist’s apartment, perhaps 74. Oscar the Grouch’s love |
DOWN 1. Finishes (up) the gravy 2. “Zoolander” actor ___ Wilson 3. “Go back,” in word processing 4. “Under the ___” (“The Little Mermaid” song) 5. Go off-script (hyph.) 6. Quote as a reference 7. Country appropriately hidden in 1-Across 8. Von Trapp’s “title” 9. Act like bees 10. Gallery works 11. Doubly-named 1963 Kingsmen hit played by numerous marching bands (2 words) 12. Group that inspired “Mamma Mia!” 13. Actor Penn 19. Steph Curry’s organization 22. Actor Nick of 2002’s “Drumline” 25. Dallas NBAer, for short 26. College, in the United Kingdom 27. June card recipient 28. Kmart merger partner 29. Place for amateurs to belt out tunes (2 words) 31. “Unattractive”-sounding citrus hybrid 33. Built like a lumberjack 34. “It’s ___! We go into overtime!” (2 words) 35. “Are you serious?!” 36. Ending meaning “sort of” 37. “Language and Mind” author Chomsky 38. Like Bowls and All-Star games 39. Auction gesture 45. “___: Miami” (TV series) 46. Director Guillermo ___ Toro 47. Iowa football coach Hayden 52. 3-D medical scan (abbrev.) 53. Olympian’s prize 54. January, in Spanish 56. Time to turn on the floodlights 57. Did laps in a pool 58. “___ good example” (2 words) 60. Coach’s helper (abbrev.) 61. Singer Bareilles 62. Change for a five 63. Hit the cymbals too hard 65. VCR format that competed with Beta 66. Not plugged in 68. “And I Love ___” (Beatles song) |
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