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My first ever comment in this forum is to suggest a musical clue for this theme: [f,p] which would obviously solve to DYNAMICDUO.
Having never tried my hand at crossword construction, I imagine one of the most challenging aspects is coming up with a novel clue for evergreen words like EPEE, ERA, and so forth. With that in mind, a major tip of the cap to the constructor for the clue Deb mentioned - [Watches or Matches] solving to SEES was absolutely brilliant.
Having never heard the term "bas-relief", I found myself wondering a) why "gas relief" was hyphenated and b) how the editors let in such a gross clue.
Fun fact: the Bible makes no reference to the forbidden fruit being an apple. The clue in question, however, was clever enough that I will refrain from penning a strongly worded letter to the editor.
@Elise either is correct. The scale is known as "solfege" and is named after the middle two notes ("fa" and "sol"). Because "sol" is followed by "la" it usually gets elided when spoken, so eventually "so" became acceptable as well. Fun fact: "Do" (the first note) was originally called "Ut".
@Cat Lady Margaret What's funny is that I originally entered "modulation" (same number of letters, same initial letter) and thought to myself, "A much more common modulation would be d to F rather than D to F." Then I started thinking about early Romantic composers like Schubert who loved doing that very thing, and then of course I eventually realized my error. To answer your question, not sure if this technically qualifies, but the opening chord of Bach's B minor mass, with the soprano singing the (minor) third of the chord, is an early indicator that the piece is going to be a doozy.
@Eric Hougland Were you a fan of Robert B. Parker's Spenser series? Spenser's paramour for the entire series was named Susan Silverman.
@Craig Nevill-Manning Yup, that was the last wrong entry for me before I finally realized my mistake. "Reagan" kinda seemed like it fit, too; I was pretty sure "agit" was slang for "agitated", and I'm too young to remember the KCAR. Of course "ager" doesn't really make sense, but this is what happens when your primary source of new vocabulary words is crosswords. Is "Ager" that much less logical than, say, "URNING"?
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