Ravinia 2024 Issue 5

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 Crossword Puzzle by Aimee Lucido ACROSS 1. Ravinia peer where The Roots host an annual “Picnic” festival 5. Stella who was the 2023 Gramophone Young Artist of the Year 9. Genre for Tito Puente 14. “Sweet but Psycho” singer Max, and others 15. Pop singer Ora 16. Birth city of tenor Matthew Polenzani, informally 17. Sarah Vaughan Jazz Competition winner debuting in August at Ravinia 19. Frequent source of car music 20. Singer Barter 21. Steans alum Barnatan who is Music Director of La Jolla SummerFest 22. Swampy spot 23. Ravinia _______ over 11,000 tickets to 300 service agencies and public libraries across Chicago and the north and south suburbs as part of Reach Teach Play 25. Jonathan Swift pieces 28. Emotion in “Smells Like Teen Spirit” 29. Orch. section 30. Prefix for the birds 31. Kind of tile 34. Walk of Fame figure 35. Rock band behind The Arcade , who is headlining Ravinia in August 38. Stumble 39. Musician Dylan known as the “Father of the drone” 40. Musician’s asset 41. Scourge 42. Report card report 46. Tastefully stylish 48. Like the medieval citole and the Mesopotamian lyre 50. “___ Original Song” (Academy Award category) 51. Vicinity 52. Damage 53. “If I Had a Hammer” singer Lopez 55. Co-frontman of The Roots 57. Matthew Polenzani’s voice subtype and the opera company he trained at, for short 58. Camp shelter 59. American composer Charles who also worked as an insurance actuary 60. Relinquishes 61. Women of Spain: Abbr. 62. Not so much DOWN 1 Tourist attraction near the Dead Sea 2 “Venus” singer Frankie 3 Ceremony for a newborn 4 Hush-hush org. 5 Heavy object lifter 6 Sons, in Spain 7 School near Windsor 8 Vote of dissent 9 Advantages 10 Pong creator 11 Tempo that’s neither slow nor fast 12 Airport near D.C. 13 “Imagine” co-writer 18 Cowboy singer Tex 22 Neiman’s partner 24 Music rights org. 25 At rest 26 Tony-winning musical Dear ___ Hansen 27 Title for Paul McCartney or Georg Solti 29 Campfire treat 32 Take back 33 ____-garde (Descriptor of John Cage’s 4'33" ) 34 Egyptian peninsula 35 Said aloud 36 Stravinsky ballet that premiered in 1910, with “The” 37 Alley prowler 38 Simple top 41 Scales, chords, and arpeggios, in music 43 Eliminate 44 Scoundrels 45 Emphasize 47 He sings “Friend Like Me” in Aladdin 48 United Center, for one 49 Constructions in trees 51 Violinist Leopold 53 Initials of a girl group headlining Ravinia in August 54 Kind of whiskey 55 Milk measures: Abbr. 56 Pianist-composer ___ Hardin Armstrong who was part of the Chicago Black Renaissance in jazz Solution on page 87 Aimee Lucido writes crosswords for the New York Times , the New Yorker , AVCX, and many other publications. She also is the author of several books for kids, including Emmy in the Key of Code , Recipe for Disaster , and Pasta Pasta Lotsa Pasta . aimeelucido.com RAVINIAMAGAZINE • AUGUST 19 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2024 24