Picture the Music Friday, October 9, 2026 · By the Crossword Study Team
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across 1 Ellen of "Grey's Anatomy" 7 Plastic additive often labeled "free" on bottles: Abbr. 10 Without guile 17 * Genre blending confessional rock influences with hip-hop (2 wds.) 18 * Talent for picking out pitches 19 Ontario's provincial capital 20 Render in another language 23 Menopause treatment involving hormones: Abbr. 24 Left out 25 * Measured silence in a score 26 Time without end 28 * Several pitches sung on a single syllable 29 Rae who co-created "Insecure" 30 * A passage of melody 31 * Performance for just one 32 Stopper for a drain 33 Chicago's summer clock setting: Abbr. 35 Inexperienced online player, informally 39 Stretch vehicle at a premiere 40 * Instruction to play with the bow 43 * Vibrating strip on a woodwind mouthpiece 47 "___ Carter," Lil Wayne album series 48 Biblical garden 49 * Picture: Name the handheld percussion instrument. 50 Stark who trains with the Faceless Men 51 * Scale type whose tonic triad has a lowered third relative to major 53 Hardy heroine of the d'Urbervilles 54 * Foot-operated control on a piano 55 * German art song 56 Amherst's flagship state university, familiarly 57 Request to join someone's contacts (2 wds.) 58 * At a walking pace, in a score 60 ___ Paradise, narrator of "On the Road" 62 Historical English dictionary, for short 63 "I couldn't keep my composure" (3 wds.) 68 * Score instruction to remain silent 72 * Simple sung melody, often repeated 75 * Ancient stringed instrument with a crossbar 76 Layered sedimentary rock 77 Takes tiny drinks 81 * Broad and slow, in a score 82 "Once ___ a time..." 83 * Bugle call at a military funeral 84 Hard ___, or busily working 85 Barcode standard on retail packages: Abbr. 86 Nevada city near Lake Tahoe 87 * Woodwind that typically supplies an orchestra's tuning pitch 88 Country that dissolved in 1991: Abbr. 89 * Lowest standard adult male vocal range 91 2022 Indian film featuring "Naatu Naatu" 93 Jacques who played Monsieur Hulot 94 * Supply chordal accompaniment, in jazz slang 98 "No problem on my end" (2 wds.) 103 First name of Tesla's Musk 104 Latin name for Alsace 107 * Low-pitched instrumental accompaniment pattern 109 * Wagner's four-opera cycle, familiarly 110 Last portion (2 wds.) 111 Before, to a poet 112 State of being by oneself 114 One who speaks aloud 115 * Songlike instrumental composition 116 Sign on an available moving van (2 wds.) 117 Sheltered flank of a ship (2 wds.) 118 Grad students who help teach courses, for short 119 Cookie-inspired cereal with ring-shaped pieces down 1 Five-sided polygons 2 Meditation chants 3 Small burrowing mammals 4 Chris who plays Star-Lord 5 Diner, in a broad sense 6 * Stage work whose dialogue is largely sung 7 Trailing in the standings 8 * Music assigned to one performer 9 Conspicuously bohemian 10 Units with nuclei and electrons 11 * Tenor lover in Gounod's opera set in Verona 12 * Rapid alternation between neighboring pitches 13 Moisturizer in a pump bottle 14 Tree-like beings in Tolkien's world 15 * Vertical stroke rising from a notehead 16 Fizzy fountain drink 20 * Three equal rhythmic values played in the time normally allotted to two 21 Move smoothly along a surface again 22 Takes for granted 27 Wallace who hosts "Deadline: White House" 34 * Cheery singing syllables 36 Volcano near Catania 37 Residents menaced by the Grinch 38 * Measures of music 40 Under the covers, say 41 "Sanford and Son" star Foxx 42 * Wrong note, in a jazz musician's slang 44 Poetic name for Ireland 45 Looked over 46 Art movement associated with Duchamp 51 * Picture: Name a sound-changing accessory shown beneath the instrument. 52 Sent an online message to, briefly 54 ___ Alto, California 59 * Symbol specifying a musical pitch and duration 60 * Perform a melody with one's voice 61 * Choral range below soprano 64 * Curved marking joining pitches to be played smoothly 65 Enter using a keyboard 66 Metal with the symbol Fe 67 * Male vocal range above baritone 68 Lightning-producing weather events, in forecasts 69 Captain pursuing Moby Dick 70 * Clamp that raises a guitar's open-string pitches 71 "What ___ is new?" 72 Suit represented by a trefoil 73 Hawaiian term used for a person of mixed ancestry 74 Curved segments of circles 77 Sweet white wine from a Bordeaux district 78 "That isn't true!" (3 wds.) 79 * Sliding valve components in some brass instruments 80 * Orchestral section whose players often use bows 90 * Ordered sequences of pitches used for practice 92 * Tiered platforms supporting a choir 95 Cheri formerly of "Saturday Night Live" 96 Extracted from underground 97 Spanish word for "father" 99 "Of course," in Spanish 100 Worker who lubricates machinery 101 Balancing ___ foot (2 wds.) 102 * Slowly, in a score 104 Surgeon and "Being Mortal" author Gawande 105 Past the expected arrival time 106 Place for a new building 107 * Regular pulse that organizes musical rhythm 108 * Featured vocal number in a staged musical drama 113 * Rock style associated with confessional lyrics 1 across, Ellen of "Grey's Anatomy", 6 letters.
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