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Breaktime Answers

Crossword and Sight-Sing Challenge

Volume CVII, No. 12December, 2007

SIGHTSINGING ANSWER
Excerpt from “The Nutcracker”

CROSSWORD PUZZLE ANSWERS

Across

1- Bassist Ephron or actor Noveck

FIMA

5- Action word

VERB

9- Emulates Mirren

ACTS

13- Emulate Leo

ROAR

14- Ancient Troy

ILIUM

16- Folk Tales

LORE

17- Auricular

OTIC

18- Boatman’s river

VOLGA

19- Funny guy

RIOT

20- Fancy club date

GALA

21- Italian bee

APE

22- Harvest amounts

YIELDS

24- Jazz festival town

NICE

26- Portico

STOA

27- Chopin piece

ETUDE

29- Spool holders

SPINDLES

33- Fighter Carnera

PRIMO

34- Drum Beat

FLAM

35- Mongol tent

YURT

36- Blakey or Tatum

ART

37- Send

ELATE

38- French vineyard

CRU

39- ____ turkey (method of kicking)

COLD

41- Award stars

RATE

42- Police alert

SIREN

44- Song collection

TREASURY

46- Took to

LIKED

47- One song on a 78 RPM

SIDE

48- Songwriter Bloom

RUBE

49- Ahasuerus’s queen

VASHTI

52- Tidy hairdo

BUN

53- Lip soother

BALM

57- Malarial fever

AGUE

58- Coronet, not cornet

TIARA

60- Length times width

AREA

61- Very dry

SERE

62- Convocation of witches

ESBAT

63- Type of beer

NEAR

64- “Bewitched” star Barbara

EDEN

65- Stag, e.g.

MALE

66- Pops the question

ASKS

Down

1- Bow part

FROG

2- Tiny quantity

IOTA

3- What you’ve got, online

MAIL

4- Mystery

ARCANUM

5- Tempo marking

VIVACE

6- Run off with a lover

ELOPE

7- Irritate

RILE

8- Annoy

BUG

9- “Alright _______”

ALREADY

10- Tuba tubing

COIL

11- Stepped heavily

TROD

12- Most gigs are divided into these

SETS

15- Romberg musical

MAYTIME

23- Electrically charged atom

ION

25- Repeated phrase in a Broadway title

IDO

26- Flood

SPATE

27- Infield flub

ERROR

28- Name of a song

TITLE

29- Stony gray

SLATY

30- “Filthy” money

LUCRE

31- Made a 27 down

ERRED

32- Phaser setting

STUN

33- Contract

PACT

34- Roadside warning

FLARE

37- Learned

ERUDITE

40- Taro plant

DASHEEN

42- Bro or sis

SIB

43- Flower arranging on Honshu

IKEBANA

45- Join the band (___ in)

SIT

46- Shaped like a crescent

LUNATE

48- Beyond exurbian

RURAL

49- Bouquet holder

VASE

50- Brought to maturity

AGED

51- Positive

SURE

52- Rum cake

BABA

54- War god

ARES

55- Saxophone problem

LEAK

56- Actor Sonny

MARS

59- Doctrine

ISM