Complete Clue List
Across
1. Blows
7. Perch
10. Mature (4,2,3)
11. Organic fertiliser
12. A happening (sometimes musical)
13. Inexperienced
14. "March of the Toreadors" overture from "Carmen" (1875) by Georges ____
17. Trap and drum type
20. Bar mixer
24. Moustache type (with "Fu")
25. Hitting sound
26. Something painful from a bee or wasp, also the last chord at the end of a march
27. Selects (2-4)
28. Inevitability of life (Br.)
29. Rear seating compartment in some older vehicles
30. Rhythmical drumbeat or an exhibition involving military bands, personnel and skills
31. Musical forms with sets of concert band pieces, also luxury hotel accommodations
32. Ceremonial processions
36. Brass instruments, sometimes French
39. The "Colonel ____ March" (1914); theme used in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957)
42. "The ____" (1889) one of Sousa's most famous marches, also a nickname for Norse God Thor
43. Leader of a military band: drum ____
44. French farewell
45. Quick bucks?
46. Waterlogged
47. Graceful woman
Down
1. Soprano's note (4,1)
2. Three "Marches Militaires" (Op. 51, D. 733) composed by ____ Schubert
3. One of the troop
4. Russian composer ____ Shostakovich whose "Suite for Variety Orchestra" opens with a march
5. Wolfgang Amadeus ____ composed "Rondo Alla Turca" (Turkish March)
6. "Tannhäuser" (1845) by Richard ____ features a "Grand March" (Act 2, Scene 4)
7. Some woodwinds
8. Musical drama, sometimes containing marches
9. Private student (for a musical instrument?)
15. Male lover
16. Sousa's 1896 operetta, also the name of a march of themes from the work (2,7)
18. "____ ____ March" (1928) composed by Sousa, named after the US State (3,6)
19. Pick up where one left off
20. Pick-up area (3,4)
21. Not so wide
22. Brainiac
23. "Radetzky March" (1848, Op. 228) was composed by Johann ____ Sr
33. Sharpness
34. Shout from Speedy Gonzales
35. Swedish rock band named after the continent, "The Final Countdown" (album and song)
36. Service songs, a specialty of Salvation Army bands
37. Rearrange, not dance again
38. Wander off
39. Much of a marching band
40. Interrogate or cook
41. Adolescents, whose participation is essential if brass bands are to survive