January 2004
Organists' Crossword 6	Show Menu

Correct entries to Crossword 5 arrived from Derek Seymour, Eric de Courcy, Edgerton Ashmore, Adrian Somerfield, Barrie Magill, Shirley Wright and Norbert Kelvin Well done to all and particularly to the lucky two whose names came out of the mythical hat — Derek Seymour and Edgerton Ashmore. A book of recently-published Music Crosswords has been sent to each. The full solution to the puzzle appears below. Puzzle 6 follows.

Clues Across

1. Familiar hymn tune, to which “All people that on earth do dwell” is set (3,9)
6. A drop of golden sun? (2)
9. The number of pipers piping (6)
10. Utters (4)
11. From it comes “The heavens are telling” (8)
12. A sweet-tones organ stop of inverted conical shape (5)
14. The girl with the delicate air, according to the song (4)
16. Familiar hymn tune on which Bach wrote a fugue (2,4)
18. Rather fast (7)
19. Shift! (4)
20. At the same pitch (6)
21. The girl with the gun in the musical (5)
23. This Lisa is in the Louvre (4)
24. Sir ...... Nicolson, English cathedral organist, composer, and founder of the RSCM (6)
25. Spheres on royal regalia (4)
26. Organ pipes for carrying smoke! (5)
27. Cornish dance for botanists! (6)
29. Increase the sound on the third manual perhaps (5)
31. The first bell sound in the carol (4)
32. Come back Paddy, from the Cavan town (6)
33. What God did during on first six days (6)
34. An archaic you (3)

Clues Down

1. Stops found on all organs (4,9)
2. Reside in a familiar hymn (5)
3. Half of an Evensong canticle (4)
4. A Square hymn tune, or an interim ruler (6)
5. A musical partnership? (4)
7. Relaxes (5)
8. There was a wedding at this town in Galilee (4)
10. Serious choral work by Walford Davies (6,6)
13. Sea leg could be an English preying (?) musician who burnt his music and instruments on becoming a Quaker in 1660 (6)
15. Interval of a 13/5 foot stop (11)
16. Platform supporting organ pipes should be very familiar (10)
17. Do this with me, fast falls the eventide (5)
22. Thomas Tertius, proud organist and composer (5)
27. A squashed note? (4)
28. Édouard, French composer in a cappella lot (4)
30. Conflict in Britten’s Requiem (3)

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