Crossword: It Got Really Loud In Here

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A musical-themed crossword puzzle created exclusively for Halftime Magazine. Here is the January/February 2020 installment.

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2019 November / December crossword

ACROSS

1. Instrument holder
5. “Will & Grace” character
10. Governing body for bugle corps
(abbrev.)
13. Egg-shaped
14. Got to one’s feet
15. Suffix after north or south
16. “Count me out!” (2 words)
17. Where old metal money gets
buried? (2 words)
19. Naval rank below Lieut.
20. Prefix with horn for Swiss mountains
21. “Star Wars” hero
22. Brass instrument that weighs
about 30 pounds, on average
24. GPS part (abbrev.)
26. Computer owner
27. Peaceful harmony
29. “Downton ___” (PBS series)
31. Breakfast food in part of the UK?
(2 words)
36. Sea wriggler
37. Vague discomfort
38. “George of the Jungle” creature
41. Riddle about a hay machine?
(2 words)
43. Like a fife
45. Greek I’s
46. “All right already, I get it!” (2 words)
47. “On the Road” protagonist ___ Paradise
50. Building block brand
51. Be charitable
52. Solemnly serious
54. “Over here!”
57. Saxophone part officiated the game?
(2 words)
60. Feature for one band member
61. Slip up
62. Is overly theatrical
63. Push
64. Serpentine sound
65. Fred of Limp Bizkit
66. “Frozen 2” character

DOWN

1. Traffic lane marker
2. Shakespeare’s birthplace
Stratford-upon-___
3. Didn’t budge (2 words)
4. Peyton Manning’s brother
5. Genre for PSY and BTS, for short (hyph.)
6. Sign after Pisces
7. “The Daily Show” correspondent Chieng
8. “Exit full screen” key
9. Classical beginning?
10. Make less tense
11. Catchphrase from The Crocodile Hunter
12. Word with tube or circle
14. Home of the Bruins (abbrev.)
18. Slips up
20. Worse than horrible
23. Salt Lake City Pac-12 player
25. Chips accompaniment
27. “Wow” sensation
28. Sallie ___ (student loan company)
30. More bulked up
32. Room dividers
33. Ginger ___
34. A long way away
35. Bit of truth stretching
38. It’s pitched to Eb in British-style
brass bands (2 words)
39. Pot pie veggie
40. Medical drama settings (abbrev.)
41. Like some beans or potatoes
42. Weather tough to see in
43. Slope sliders
44. Partner of shakers?
46. Shrek’s kin
48. “But ___ me …” (2 words)
49. Artist’s apartments
50. High-efficiency lights, for short
53. Salad bar veggie
55. Cybertruck promoter Musk
56. Baby ___ (“The Mandalorian” character)
58. Stoplight color
59. Bird from Down Under
60. Place to unwind

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About author

Matt Jones

Matt Jones is a 1998 graduate of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he majored in music education. Since 1994, he has also written crosswords for venues such as The New York Times, Games Magazine and Stagebill. He currently writes a syndicated weekly puzzle for more than 50 alternative newspapers across the country.

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