![]() ![]() If you are done solving this clue take a look below to the other clues found on today's puzzle in case you may need help with any of them. ![]() I certainly hope so.This clue was last seen on NYTimes OctoPuzzle. Will there be a Season 7? Pete will let us know soon. Intricate and beautiful, and a great way to wrap up Season 6. “Hall of Fame” indeed! Now that’s a memorable finishing flourish, on a par with the central ENO/ONE thing from the Mega-Meta a few years ago. Hall, the great country music singer/songwriter. found 20 answers to Greek wind god (myth), 6 letters crossword clue. See it? “Tracks of My Tears” = TOMT, as in Tom T. Or perhaps your story features a singer and you want to use original lyrics. President Barack Obama awarded Ailey the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 2014. ![]() The most famous work that Ailey choreographed was called Revelations. Coming up with all those songs whose initials spell something took a while I’m sure, and then finding exactly 12 (because year-long Mega-Meta) that spelled out yet another song was not easy to do.Īnd just now at 10:55 I had another penny drop! Pete, you’re a clever guy…I had never quite figured out what the title “Hall of Fame” had to do with anything, and then I thought “Wouldn’t it be cool if the initials of ‘Tracks of My Tears’ spelled out something as well? But that’d be asking a bit too much…” and then I noticed something… Alvin Ailey was a dancer who formed his own troupe in New York in 1958, naming it the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Pete makes this look easy, but this was an intricate piece of work. And sure enough: you get there by taking not just the first letter of the act’s name, but the first letter of each word (as emboldened above). That’s not anything, but it was close enough to Smokey Robinson’s TRACKS OF MY TEARS that I thought it had to be the contest answer. So I took the first letter of each act’s name, ignoring “The,” and got TACSOFMY?EAR. “Beast of Burden” is by the Rolling Stones Someone hip me to the answer there in comments, please! ? is by ? - I can’t figure this one out, but it’s a song with the initials SIT by a band/person with the initial T. “Ghost Riders in the Sky” is most famously done by the Outlaws, but I didn’t know this and backsolved/Googled to get there OK, so now what? List the artists of those twelve songs, in numerical order of clue number: Pretty cool mechanism - “I Feel For You” leading to IFFY is my favorite of the group, since it seems improbable that IFFY would be a famous song’s initials, but there it is. Similarly, “Float” means “bob,” and then “Ox” clues the Rolling Stones song “Beast of Burden.” So “Draw” is a TIE, and then “Relax” clues “Take It Easy,” the Eagles song with T.I.E. What’s going on? The first part of each slashed clue is a straight-up clue to the answer, while the second is a clue to a famous song with those initials. ![]() We’re told we’re looking for a classic hit song, and there are twelve entries whose clues are divided by a slash:ġ-D = BAG / Bang a GongĤ-D = BITS / Back in the SaddleĨ-D = IFFY / I Feel For Youĩ-D = WIG / What I Gotġ7-A = GRITS / Ghost Riders in the SkyĢ1-D = WAY / We Are Youngĥ2-A = LAP / Like a Prayerĥ4-A = HOTS / Heart of the SunriseĦ1-D = TIE / Take It EasyĦ3-D = SLY / Someone Like YouĦ8-A = BOB / Beast of BurdenĪnd then at 29D/10D: = INITIAL IMPRESSIONS. It’s Mega-Meta time, as our maestro winds up Season 6 of this outstanding series. ![]()
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