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Across 1. Tonal center or hair-styling product 6. Stephen Foster “Mighty Joe Young” favorite 8. Fashionable headdress of the 17th & 18th centuries 11. Pomp-ous, Enigma-tic, English composer with push-broom moustache 12. Snazzy key modifier 13. Has her hair brushed as she sings “The Willow Song” 14. A cappella quartet style characterized by four-part harmony 15. Grimm fairy tale of unkempt man, inspiration for Siegfried Wagner opera “Der Bärenhäuter” 17. Janáček piano cycle and shelter-in-place hair trajectory, “On an _________ Path” 18. Ursine subtitle of Haydn Symphony No. 82 21. 1940s subverted rhyme “be nice and clean” novelty song, revived by Dr. Demento 24. Librettist for Gounod, Meyerbeer, Thomas, and Offenbach, his surname is French for “barber” 26. Finnish conductor who looks an awful lot like Santa Claus (or at any rate, The Bumble) 27. Sharp Haydn quartet nickname 30. John Waters movie, turned musical, turned movie musical 32. Demon Barber of Fleet Street 33. Stephen Foster: “I Dream of ______ with the Light Brown Hair” 34. Composer of madrigal “Chiome d’oro” (“Golden Tresses”) 35. Heroine of Eric Coates’ “Three Bears Phantasy” 36. Long-haired biblical strongman, subject of Saint-Saëns opera 37. Debussy: “The Girl with the ______ Hair” 38. His version of “The Barber of Seville” predates Rossini’s by more than 30 years 39. Korngold: “Die tote Stadt” murder weapon 43. Hairy creatures in Oliver Knussen opera based on Sendak classic 45. Chausson “Le roi Arthus” (“King Arthur”) heroine, finds herself in a hairy situation 47. Composer of “If You’ve Only Got a Moustache” 48. “Ruslan and Ludmila” dwarf wizard with magic beard 49. John Jacob Niles: “_____ Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair” 50. Conductor parodied by Bugs in “Long-Haired Hare”

Down 2. R. Nathaniel Dett completist pianist Erickson (paradoxically, his first name suggests one who trims) 3. Washington Irving bearded sleepy-head, inspired overtures by Chadwick and Bristow 4. Shaved with oscillating blade; also, term for audio distortion 5. Perrault fairy tale, inspired Cocteau, Ravel, Disney, and Robert Moran 6. Mussorgsky carefree, hair-free COVID retreat 7. Gratuitously-bearded director of St. Petersburg Conservatory 9. “Let down” Lou Harrison hairy fairy tale opera 10. Alban Berg opera that opens with a shave 14. Ambroise Thomas: “Je suis Titania la ______” 15. Peter Cornelius Arabian Nights opera, “The Barber of ______” 16. “Shave and a haircut” response 19. American composer tonsorial-sounding surname 20. 1960s hirsute musical 21. Rodgers & Hammerstein source of “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair” 22. Simian subtitle of Richard Arnell Symphony No. 5 23. “Miroirs” (“Mirrors”) composer 25. Name of Scottish conductor and turn-of-the-century “Girl” hairstyle 28. Where “the old raccoon, by the light of the moon, was combing her auburn hair” 29. “Planet of the Apes” composer (1968) 31. Snake-haired Gorgon, inspired composers Christopher Rouse and Stacy Garrop 40. Colorful fairy tale uxoricide, inspired operas by Bartók, Dukas, and Offenbach 41. The barber of Seville 42. Dries Parsifal’s feet with her hair 44. Strauss seven veils nymphet who demands “a little off the top” 46. Monstrous Grieg Lyric Piece, “March of the ______”