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Across 2. Liszt saint who preaches to the birds 4. Titular bird of Puccini’s “La Rondine” 9. Songbird elegized in Telemann cantata after being devoured by cat 10. Flighty subjects of ballet by André Messager, metaphorically 11. “Parsifal” symbol of divine presence, also an ice cream bar 12. Bird in melancholy Warlock song cycle about lost love, after Yeats 13. Origin of Johnny Mandel song, “The Shadow of Your Smile,” Burton-Taylor film, “The __________” 17. It’s a sin to kill one, according to Atticus 18. Devout cataloguer of birds, regarded them as symbols of divine purpose 19. Reclusive pianist who shared home with 100 cockatoos and wrote funeral march for dead parrot 20. Humorously, someone who is attracted to the arts, like a scavenger to carrion (two words, rhyming) 21. Jerome Moross film score that hatched Sinatra hit “Stay with Me,” “The ________” 24. Redbreast or Sherwood outlaw, subject of English ballad, “Bonny Sweet _____” 25. Kleptomaniacal Rossini corvid 26. “1776” metaphoric apparatus in which to hatch an eaglet, “congressional _________” 27. Dragon whose blood enables Siegfried to understand bird-speech 28. Nickname of Haydn Symphony No. 83 29. Golden galliform of Rimsky-Korsakov’s final opera 33. Jazz saxophonist and composer who went by “Bird” (full name) 35. Symbol of happiness to symbolist poet Maeterlinck, incidental music by Humperdinck 37. Vaughan Williams bird on the rise 40. Song of Koko’s dicky-bird 42. Underworld domain of Sibelius swan 44. Trio of hungry scavengers who size up corpse in Thomas Ravenscroft ballad 45. Ornithologist friend of “Beethoven of Kentucky” Anthony Philip Heinrich 48. Sticky waterfowl in Gustav Holst ballet after Brothers Grimm, “The Golden _____” 49. Plumed liberator in patriotic song that forms basis of Kodály variations

Down 1. Lohengrin downy “tug” 3. Inkspots hit, “When the ________ Come Back to Capistrano” 5. Woody subject of Italian song covered by Glenn Miller, the Andrew Sisters, Kate Smith, etc. 6. Mozart birdcatcher 7. Respighi ornithological suite, “The _____” 8. Avian nickname for Vivaldi flute concerto 13. Mozart kept one as a pet 14. Has two drumsticks, but is usually played on the fiddle 15. Ravel’s “sad birds” (two words, French) 16. Jennifer Higdon work for string quartet, “An Exaltation of _____” 22. Classic album of music by Hildegard, “A _______ on the Breath of God” 23. 19th century soprano dubbed “The Swedish Nightingale” (full name) 30. Chicago contemporary music sextet, marketed in the lower case, eighth _________ 31. Prokofiev late bloomer, after Hans Christian Andersen, “The Ugly ________” 32. Villa-Lobos enchanted bird 34. Acted not as composer, but rather sound consultant for Hitchcock’s “The Birds” 36. Nickname of Boccherini string quintet inspired by Infante’s exotic bird collection 38. Schubert’s “Schwanengesang,” in English 39. Subject of Amy Beach avian piano diptych, heard at eve and morn, “The Hermit ______” 41. Flighty Mendelssohn: “On _____ of Song” 43. Delius springtime first responder 46. Alongside Tallis, most powerful musician in Tudor England 47. Piano manufacturer established in 1842, Hardman ____