Face the Music

I C what you did there; thanks!

Not an easy one for the tone deaf.

I was SO confused until I remembered that it is actually SOL so I could ignore SONO.

Same as with lbray53, I at first used SONO. Also, I didn’t initially see LAIRS. Fun! Thanks, Dr. T!

32A Um... why wouldn't I believe you?

Definitely more towards the Puma side of things, I think. Saw the first step fairly quickly, but needed a little nudge to see the second step. And then got confused with ANGLER, which led me to FADACAR. Took a bit to sort that out. Nice one, Tom!

finally off the struggle bus... i just could not see this without writing everything out with pen & paper and coloring the grid and getting out feet of red string to connect the dots...

i did have all the right notes from the start, i just could not put them in the right order... hopefully i can still be part of the wolfgang... i'll see myself out

Nicely constructed. I really appreciate 32A.

nice mechanism - i appreciated the hint for looking up solfege :)

Well, I'd put this on the kitten side. But I guess I can see how it might be a puma. But I'd rate it kitten.

Nice one! I can't believe how long it took me to get there, considering how many years of piano lessons I had as a kid :-)

Terrific, Tom! (reversing that works too). Very clever with a rewarding aha! moment. Did not parse “Rock” properly for 27A, and not knowing surfing lingo either, I hastily entered MORIS (sic, as in Morris Day and the Time, a rock group) rather than DORIS, so my journey took quite a bit longer. Very cool when the scales finally fell from eyes!

Noteworthy contribution!

Forgot I had abandoned this one to wait for nudges. Came back and looked at nudges… no help at all (I had all that). Couldn’t figure out what to do with “face.” I first tried just singing the syllables to see if it sounded like a tune that would yield and answer, but no (very few tunes would start with FA). So I tried scoring the syllables on a musical clef (since the spaces of the treble clef are F-A-C-E, I thought maybe that was a hint). In the key of C, placing fa-la-do-la-re-mi on the treble clef gives them these notes: F-A-C-A-D-E. WAS THIS INTENTIONAL?? Because I see that the more “normal” solution is to de-face the theme entries of their musical syllable, then find an entry that uses those leftover letters (in order) with a new “face” (first letter) on it… also yielding FACADE. If this double way of solving was intentional, holy cow Dr. Tom how clever are you???!!

Needed some help ! Guess I’m tone-deaf! Thanks DrTom!

Never seen the Sound of Music and don't know music per se, so needed all the nudges here. Fun in the end though. :)

Too much knowledge led me astray on this one, I'm afraid, but that was unavoidable I'm afraid. I needed the 5th nudge to realize that you were operating under the common misconception that the DO-RE-MI sequence corresponds to the C-major scale. Since I had already found the theme answers, things then fell into place.

Not quite sure why your nudges were HARPING on the clues, when it was the grid entries that were KEY.

do(h)!! I saw everything but the last step. I needed that last nudge to get the cat out of the bag. Thanks DrTom!!

Got it with nudges- thanks, Dr Tom!

Oh my - I whiffed on that one. I got confused by having 2 LAs with a SO in between, and a TE coming down. (Thought should be “SOL” and “TI”…) Made a puma out of a kitten! Thanks DrTom!

Very nice! Had the do-re-mi part, but wasn't ever thinking to convert them to "traditional" notes! Nudge got me there. Fortunately, I guessed that this would be in C major, otherwise the notes would include flats/sharps, which would be a weird conversion- so I didn't have to work my way through all of the permutations of possible scales.

Very clever. I've been out of the country so am just now getting to the puzzles. Having picked up Covid along the way, my brain is a bit fuzzy and I did need the clues!