Allegro

Breaktime Answers

Volume CVI, No. 10October, 2006

ANSWER TO SIGHT SINGING CHALLENGE:
“Fur Elise” (Beethoven)

CROSSWORD PUZZLE:

Across

1- Heartbeat of the rhythm section

BASS

5- Song name

TITLE

10- Food

GRUB

14- Violin bridge, e.g.

ARCH

15- Video store section

ADULT

16- California wine valley

NAPA

17- Raise up

REAR

18- Bad luck sailor

JONAH

19- Auth. unknown

ANON

20- Extreme cruelty

SADISM

22- No longer freezing

MELTING

24- Extinct bird

MOA

25- River in Switzerland

AARE

26- Candid photo

SNAPSHOT

30- Dig deeply

DELVE

35- Beige

TAN

36- Gibbon, e.g.

APE

37- New on the scene

GREEN

38- Bar mitzvahs, e.g.

RITUALS

41- Producing effects (science jargon)

OPERANT

43- Chemical compound

AMINE

44- Printing widths

ENS

45- Regret a mistake

RUE

46- Race horse type

PACER

47- Sycophant

YEASAYER

50- Land in water

ISLE

53- Fall behind

LAG

54- Hide away

SECRETE

58- Number of stars

MYRIAD

62- Energy field, perhaps

AURA

63- Adult insect

IMAGO

66- Covetousness

ENVY

67- Old sailor’s ration

GROG

68- Added booze

LACED

69- King’s school

ETON

70- “I played the wrong note!”

OOPS

71- No friend

ENEMY

72- Cooked

DONE

Down

1- Watering holes

BARS

2- Neighborhood

AREA

3- Great quantity

SCAD

4- Sushi staple

SHRIMP

5- Blues Grammy winner

TAJ MAHAL

6- Altar words

I DO

7- Large cask

TUN

8- Guanaco relative

LLAMA

9- Radio wave carrier

ETHER

10- Midge

GNAT

11- Raja’s wife

RANI

12- Atop

UPON

13- Jazz violinist Billy

BANG

21- Distress signal

SOS

23- Flat shelf

LEDGE

25- Consumed

ATE

26- Saxophone adjunct

STRAP

27- Coltrane ballad

NAIMA

28- Caper

ANTIC

29- Roman fertility goddess

OPS

31- Forget to take the coda

ERR

32- Psychedelic Dr. Tim

LEARY

33- Where the gig takes place

VENUE

34- Stage direction

ENTER

39- French one

UNE

40- Eagle’s nest

AERIE

41- 39 down, English

ONE

42- Biblical verse set to music

PSALMODY

44- CBS logo

EYE

48- Express

SAY

49- Completed negotiations

AGREED

51- Subway turner

STILE

52- Geneva’s lake

LEMAN

54- Starch used in puddings

SAGO

55- Franc replacer

EURO

56- Riding tool

CROP

57- Joplin tunes

RAGS

59- Division word

INTO

60- Stratford’s stream

AVON

61- Unit of force

DYNE

64- The Red Baron, e.g.

ACE

65- Perfect instrument

GEM