Music Mostly Folk
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TIP: 57 across written in 1926 is a jug band favorite. The refrain is nonsense.
ACROSS
1 Wagers
5 "Ray's __ Cadillac"
9 Legend
13 In chanteys with stays'ls et al
17 Swear
18 Defunct blues and jazz record label
19 California morning
20 Hardanger fiddle venue
21 www.madfolk.org (last word abbr.)
25 Wartime sisters of song
26 Humpty Dumpty in Paris
27 Roadkill subject by Loudon W.
28 __ Kottke
29 "Wouldn't you like a spot __?"
30 Stewball et al
31 Puff's threesome
36 Song gizmo with buds
37 "__ didy didy" (drinking song)
38 "Ilent-say ightnay, __-hay ightnay"
39 "__ the circle"
42 "I saw the largest ram, __"
43 34 down is one
45 Grain or missle container
48 "Spin around, pick a __"
49 Materializes
51 Music contraptions
54 Wyeth's secret
55 Grassy mystery lump
56 Walter Lantz's Andy__
57 "Crazy Words, Crazy tune" refrain
59 Snareless drums
61 True folk song author
62 Guthrie's union woman
63 Melody
64 "Skip to my __"
65 __ Paul or Flatt
66 Luau dip
68 For, for Julio Iglesias
69 "__ on chicken and caviar"
70 Fields of lots (song)
76 Cannonball of note
79 Old and __ the same time
80 Prefix with tin or tralia
81 Suffix with rice
82 Super tidy
83 "...British in the town of New __ "
87 Bruce and Pete croak this
91 A440 is one
92 "Daniel was hot; he __ first & shot"
93 Folk singers are rarely this (abbr.)
94 Tuning fork part
95 Neither Fin, Den, nor Nor, but near
96 Not happys
97 Hooraay
98 Barf
DOWN
1 "Ala-__, with a banjo..."
2 __ Carawan, hammer dulcimerist
3 Sweeney or Rundgren
4 Twirled
5 Moonglows' music
6 Alaska, Nova Scotia
7 Mos or Leppard
8 "__ pie and apple pan dowdy"
9 Rod __, famed poet & songwriter
10 Ocarina craze
11 19th Greek letter
12 __ Pinafore
13 Sits on a 30 across
14 Topic
15 Guitar color
16 Hits
22 Clairvoyant
23 "But __ woman in your life"
24 "All I can do __"
29 Asian lutes
30 Canal pal
31 Home of the tippy tower
32 Guitar brand
33 Petty's "Damn the __"
34 "Names" by Cathy Fink subject
35 Brennan's turf
39 Little 8-stringer
40 Old Songs Festival town, NY
41 Have we no bananas?
43 Follows parsley
44 Same bloke as 61 across
45 Sacklike headgear
46 Emerald or Presque
47 Little abbreviation
48 What blues harp reeds get
50 -gate (stretch)
51 -ana, location of 76 across
52 "Wish __ a star"
53 1966 musical with Angela Lansbury
55 Ukulele wood
57 Joe __ (New Eng. bluegrass legend)
58 Utter
59 Stompin' grounds
60 Chop __
63 Beep
66 Pennsylvania special interest group
67 -kosh
68 Ancient zither (variant spelling)
69 Leaves in lurch
70 Tormented
71 Not impressed
72 Subscribes again
73 __ MacColl, famed folk singer
74 Weird Al's bailiwick
75 "But don't bring __"
76 Distant music does this
77 Cupid's fomite
78 "April Love" singer
83 -pus or -ve or -vius
84 Leave one on the piano
85 Strings on a nine-string guitar
86 Compass points
88 No beer without these
89 Epoch
90 Theatre union (abbr.)