Muller Monthly
Click here to see the answer to the meta September 2020 Just Beyond the Surface by Pete Muller
10 - 17 Sept 2020 Vol 26 Issue 37
ACROSS 1 Fortune cookie additive? 6 Recently superseded data network designation 11 A/C measure 14 Guy who spends a lot of time in the kitchen 15 G-C-E for the chord C, e.g. 17 Alibaba's domain 18 Returned to a seat? 19 Genre for "La Dolce Vita" and "The Thin Red Line" 21 Middle two title words of a Joe Cocker hit 22 Location close to the stage 23 Tomé preceder 24 Summer on the French Riviera 25 Capital of Morocco 27 Figuratively 31 Ryan Leslie song about supermodel Shayk 33 It might give you a lift 35 Lao-___ 36 "Paint It, Black" instrument 37 "___ be awesome if ..." 38 Beginning part of a ski jump 40 "___ to Joy" (text for Beethoven's ninth symphony) 41 Mosaic maker 43 Levels 44 Comic actor who plays jazz flute in "Anchorman" and stars in the new movie "Eurovision Song Contest" 46 Punk rocker Cervenka who fronts X 48 Poetic palindrome 49 "Self-Reliance" author's monogram 50 When people might be leaving on a jet plane, for short 53 Nationwide adoption org. 56 Start of a statement about a meaningless flip 58 Discarded 60 South American cornmeal cake 61 Inspiration for many Linkin Park and Nirvana songs 62 Words before "your father" or "Alice" 63 Curved cutting device 64 OKs 65 How a Reuben is typically served
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The meta for this puzzle is a hit song from the '70s.
Revealing the answers to our new monthly music-themed meta crossword puzzle, p. 30
3 Specialized journalist 4 Nero portrayer in 2009's "Star Trek" 5 Capital of East Timor 6 Battlefield command 7 "___ Time" (musical revue) 8 Pigmented part of the eye 9 Bro or unc: Abbr. 10 Surfer's "man in a gray suit" 11 Spiciness 12 Zac Brown song with the line "Concrete and cars are their own prison bars" 13 Fix by hitting 24-Down, perhaps 16 Loose rock also called talus 20 Former Snowden employer, briefly 24 See 13-Down 26 Trade for less than you might have gotten 27 Classical pianist who received a 1963 Grammy 28 Category for Stüssy clothing
29 Shade on the French Riviera 30 Desires 31 "Time ___ the essence" 32 Twenty One Pilots song that was #9 on the 2016 year-end Mainstream Top 40 chart 34 Graph appendage? 39 Club once referred to as a niblick 42 Key for Massenet? 45 Surveillance, for short 47 Marked, as a ballot 49 Act conservatively? 51 Start to doodle? 52 River that winds through three Western states 53 Encouraging word 54 Practice, in jazz slang 55 Nickname for jazz saxophonist Lester Young 56 Angels' mounts? 57 Starchy pudding similar to tapioca 59 22° 30′
© 2020 Pete Muller
COLD SPRING SCHOOL BOND. COLD SPRING SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES $7.8M BOND MEASURE – DOWN FROM $9.8M – FOR NOVEMBER BALLOT; FUNDS TO PAY FOR NEW CLASSROOM AND ADMIN BUILDING AND MUCH NEEDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 5)
On the Move
Montecito segment of long-awaited Highway 101 expansion to break ground in November, p. 10
On Entertainment
Westmont’s virtual Friday Concert Series portends a potent season of music, p. 22
Calla’s Corner
The buzz over a bee movie and the secret life of beekeepers in Montecito, p. 32
