Fruit also called alligator pear |
AVOCADO |
Fruit used to make marmalade |
bitter orange |
Harry Potter and the Deathly ____, last novel in the series |
HALLOWS |
How easy-going people take things |
as they come |
In an inferior but popular way |
cheesily |
In the 1954 movie The ____ Story, James Stewart appeared as the eponymous 1A player and band leader |
glenn Miller |
Informally, the 36th president of the USA |
LBJ |
Lampooner |
PARODIST |
Malarial fever, or a shivering fit |
AGUE |
Meredith Willson musical, filmed in 1962, with a signature song linking the number and theme of this puzzle |
the Music Man |
Nearby “watering hole” visited by 1A players, reputedly |
local pub |
Of music, lacking an established key |
ATONAL |
Prime minister in the British Labour Party’s first majority government |
ATTLEE |
Released from a connection or obligation |
DISENGAGED |
Scottish jazz 1A player who also acted, appearing in The Goon Show and Superman III |
george Chisholm |
Seen from a distance |
ESPIED |
Six works for one string player by JS Bach, each with six movements |
cello suites |
Someone very good at something |
a dab hand |
Steered a boat away from the shore |
stood off |
Subject of the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan report |
civil service |
The emblem of St James, son of Zebedee |
scallop shell |
The large end of a 1A’s tubing |
BELL |
The vessel on which a fleet’s commander is quartered |
FLAGSHIP |
The ____ and 1A are the only wind instruments played by more than one winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year contest |
CLARINET |
The ____, movie with dinosaurs, made 19 years before Jurassic Park |
Land That Time Forgot |
To supply with equipment |
tool up |
Vulgarity |
UNCOUTHNESS |
What 1A players can do better than their brass colleagues |
GLISSANDOS |
What some chocolates must logically have, though it is rarely mentioned |
hard centre |
____, a 1A player in Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra, later worked as an arranger, with Frank Sinatra and Linda Ronstadt among others |
nelson Riddle |