A musical-themed crossword puzzle, created exclusively for Halftime Magazine. Here is the September/October 2016 installment.
| ACROSS 1. ___ into shape (train) 5. Table alternative, in some restaurants 10. Chess pieces (including the queen!), informally 13. It replaced the franc and drachma 14. “Life ___ Fast Lane” (2 words) 15. Prefix with biography 16. “___, poor Yorick!” 17. 2016 Olympic beach volleyball player ___ Walsh Jennings 18. Color guard’s holding 19. Endure a prolonged test, like part of your uniform? (3 words) 22. Pick-me-___ 23. “High School Musical” star Efron 24. Battle wounds 27. Have a free-for-all with the band 30. “Close My Eyes Forever” singer ___ Ford 33. Garden waterer 34. The outspoken part of your uniform? (2 words) 37. Classification 38. Members of My Little Pony’s “Mane 6,” for example 39. Lyric poem of praise 40. Writer’s alter ego which is part of your uniform? (3 words) 42. Trumpeter’s accessory 43. “Open 24 Hours” sign material, often 44. Positive response 45. Drum major’s item 46. LPs’ successors 48. Kilmer who once played Batman 49. Is appropriate, like part of your uniform? (4 words) 57. Range for some saxes 58. “___ you loud and clear!” (2 words) 59. Singer/guitarist Clapton 60. Ex-Smiths and Modest Mouse guitarist Johnny 61. Like a rainforest 62. Texas or Georgia follower, in school names 63. Pig pen 64. Suffix after “poly” 65. Just tolerable (hyph.) |
DOWN 1. Have on, like a uniform 2. Amazon Prime and Netflix competitor 3. Tehran is its capital 4. Important stance to maintain while marching 5. Two-wheelers 6. NASA force unit equal to regular force felt on Earth, briefly 7. ___ vez (“again,” in Spanish) 8. Drive-___ window 9. Big name in ketchup and pickles 10. Symbol of stubbornness 11. Coup d’___ (rebellion) 12. Yuletide drink 15. The U.S.’s largest union group (hyph.) 20. Some PCs and printers 21. After-bath powders 24. A guard may protect it 25. Punctuation near the L key 26. “___ Another” (NPR game show) (2 words) 27. Like St. Nick 28. “I haven’t got ___” (2 words) 29. Injures badly 31. “Rainbow” fish 32. Expand, as a collection (2 words) 4. Official with the most access, for short 35. Director Spike 36. Visualized 38. Wards (off) 41. Title for many university band directors 42. Glockenspiel players’ needs 45. Shopper’s tote 47. Trombone part 48. Anakin Skywalker, ultimately 49. Sharp contrast? 50. “It’s my best effort” (2 words) 51. Makes angry 52. Superman alter ego Clark 53. Facilitate 54. Cookie encouraged to be dunked 55. Singer Damone and songwriter Chesnutt, for two 56. Stadium sound effect 57. Breakfast times (abbrev.) |
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