| ACROSS 1. Give someone a hand 5. Froth made by ocean waves 9. Spoil (2 words) 14. Activity with mats 15. Woody Guthrie’s folk-singing son 16. Imperfect 17. Business school degrees (abbr.) 18. Rapper who ended up on “Law & Order: SVU” 19. Polished, like a musical performance 20. They can sound as low as a Bb two octaves below middle C (2 words) 23. Where some passengers may get lost (2 words) 24. Also 25. Closed 28. Honolulu neckwear 29. Amateur’s counterpart 32. To the ___ degree 34. First beat in 4/4 time 35. Sporting event postponer 37. Automotive stuff that gets buffed on (2 words) 39. Their lowest note can start at the F below two octaves below middle C 41. Committee heads 43. Some basketball shots 44. Jackson 5 hit of 1970 45. “___” for “elephant” (2 words) 47. Quarterback Manning 48. Former Chinese Chairman 51. ___ fun at 53. Bread in Indian restaurants 55. Rough nail file material 57. In some cases, they can sound as low as almost two octaves below middle C (2 words) 61. “You’re making ___ mistake!” (2 words) 63. Collector’s ___ 64. Catcher’s glove 65. The name a composer gives to a composition 66. Packet of copier paper 67. Suffer from sore muscles 68. Ford model that failed 69. “Como ___ usted?” 70. Fly high |
DOWN 1. Handheld crash maker 2. Shaped like a section of the brain 3. Tennis star Andre 4. Out of fashion 5. Flunk out 6. Killer whale 7. Awake 8. Make gestures, like a conductor 9. Fence opening 10. Leaves out 11. Major music events to prepare for (2 words) 12. Tree used to make baseball bats 13. When to set your clocks ahead an hour (abbr.) 21. Get on film 22. Dweebish and unhip (2 words) 26. Spanish article 27. ___-Mex cuisine 30. He wrote “Trois marches militaires” and “The William Tell Overture” 31. “Are you a good witch ___ bad witch?” (2 words) 33. They’re pulled out during sad movies (slang) 35. “___ said to the guy …” (2 words) 36. Rate measured by a radar gun (abbr.) 38. They come between dos and mis 39. Kinda funny sounding early relatives of trombones 40. Gardening tool 41. Baseball hat 42. “The Sopranos” cable network 46. Type of humor in The Onion 48. Country represented by marching bands in Veracruz 49. Singing legend Franklin 50. Pearl producer 52. Bird that’s a mascot of many schools 54. Sheet music necessities 56. Bandmates of the Papas 58. Fishing gear 59. Hardly slobbish 60. Spice Girl Bunton 61. Had some lunch 62. Ducked down |
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About the Author:
Matt Jones is a 1998 graduate of Willamette University in Salem, Ore., 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.
