The Puzzler
THE MUSIC GOES ROUND AND ROUND
The diagram represents that quaint old item a phonograph record. The music is provided by answers to clues a through w, which are to be entered sequentially, starting in the outermost ring in the section marked 1. The answers proceed counterclockwise until they have come full circle; then they drop (whether in mid-word or not) to the next ring down in section 1, and proceed in like manner, ending in the innermost ring. As a check, clues 1 through 18 yield six-letter words to be entered radially; half of these words proceed from outside to inside, the other half from inside to outside. Unfortunately, this old record skips: there are 12 instances during answers a through w in which a letter is omitted from the diagram, daken in order, these 12 letters spell out the song on the record. Answers include four proper nouns, one a trade name, and an unusual word at 13.
The diagram represents that quaint old item a phonograph record. The music is provided by answers to clues a through w, which are to be entered sequentially, starting in the outermost ring in the section marked 1. The answers proceed counterclockwise until they have come full circle; then they drop (whether in mid-word or not) to the next ring down in section 1, and proceed in like manner, ending in the innermost ring. As a check, clues 1 through 18 yield sixletter words to be entered radially; half of these words proceed from outside to inside, the other half from inside to outside. Unfortunately, this old record skips: there are 12 instances during answers a through w in which a letter is omitted from the diagram, daken in order, these 12 letters spell out the song on the record. Answers include four proper nouns, one a trade name, and an unusual word at 13.
The answers to last month’s Puzzler appear on page 99.
THE MUSIC
a. Dance company follows “Fire” number
(8)
b. Make sopranos rise, breaking files (8)
c. Holding bass the wrong way, Len’s playing is bombastic (7)
d. A reed’s improvising was hot (6)
e. Measures outside of old sound systems (7)
f. Semi-nude dancer doffing skirt for a little variation (6)
g. Extremely poor tango with comic character (4)
h. French excluded from delicate “allegro” (5)
i. Musicians do not allow supports (9)
j. Folk group hurt Roman duet outside of a church (8)
k. High passage cut diva off (7)
l. Turning round, toot your horn for actress (5)
m. Pastoral I copy shortly after sign of neglect (6)
n. Hack writer butchered operettas (9)
o. “Bad Moon Rising” summons churchmen (10)
p. Concluding phrase in Berg opera (4)
q. Small step in scale has foursome holding right onto E (11) {two words)
r. Love songs from India recalled outside uranium plant (7)
s. Brad takes Lina dancing (4)
t. Blow trombones, transposing all but the hard part (5)
u. Boo the mans saxophone lead (4)
v. Maneuvered flute but not lute in “Sown Seeds” (8)
w. Ears need adjusting to outdoor music (8)
SIX-LETTER WORDS_
1. Mrs. Armstrong presses single with Mr. Hampton
2. Delights in notes in a singer’s debut
3. I strum badly, and that’s no lie
4. Punk rock to rent
5. New music with Eastern element
6. Pizzazz describes a tuba’s sound
7. Back disc from Canned Heat?
8. Musical pieces with many fiats
9. Loud maracas mother dropped in scuffle
10. Heed 4/4 time, following one in bit of music
11. Little violin in distinguished small numbers
12. Father’s absorbing piano tips
13. Lightsome arranged a good introduction to Dvorak
14. Relax with a Parisian in concert hall seats
15. Wise guy endlessly ran scale
16. Noodle with third of concertos, going nuts
17. Latin found in Pavlova’s record
18. A second-rate baton keeps one away
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Answers to the June Puzzles
“HEX”
How can you get a cure from a curse? Remove one letter
Clues. 1. HO-OSIER 2.SN(OWC)AP (row anag. ) 3. C(AN)AST-A 4. B(U)OY-ANT 5. EMIR-ATE (rime res.) 6. DEMISES (anag.) 7. RfE.SPUTE X. TODDLES (anag.) 9. B(QOTL)EO (loot anag.) 10. TROUNCE (anag.) 11 . IN-QUIRE 12.CYANIDE (anag.) 13. LAlRlCE NY 14. DOR(OTH)Y (hut anag.) 15.VOL(TAG IE 16. CHANlNlEL 17. BAN-Ql (i )ET 15. EN(ABLE)D (Elba rev.) 19. GOODBYE (anag.) 20. u;EX)AG-ON 21. PROMATE 22. Ct R-HING 23. BLRG-EON 24. SKI RIMED 25. BEMUSED (anag.) 26. PEIAT BO)G (boat anag.) 27. EXPLAIN (anag. ) 2K.FE BRKI.IE 29. vo(w)ICING 30.S(TICK)UP 31. TWO S-TEP (pet + sow res.) 32. N ASCENT 33. THOREAU 34. RAG(TIM)E 35. SWANSEA (anag.) 36. RUB-ICON 37. MAC(BET)H
