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Across 9. Czech composer of cantata “The American Flag” 10. Frequent Yankees National Anthem operatic baritone 12. “You’re a Grand Old Flag” composer 14. Russian pianist, exile to New York, then Beverly Hills, who arranged “Star-Spangled Banner” 16. Greek poet originally celebrated by “Banner” melody, when sung at London gentlemen’s club 17. Louis Moreau Gottschalk Civil War medley of patriotic tunes, including “Banner” 18. Spielberg-produced ghost story that opens with “Banner” TV sign-off 21. 1952 Sousa biographical film starring Clifton Webb 24. Sondheim musical with “Flag Song” 26. Hatchling holding flag in beak on poster for musical “1776” 28. Composer of concert variations on “Banner,” famed Buster Crabbe hero, or a male deer 30. Athlete honored with the “Banner” four times during 1936 Olympics 31. Bugle call for lowering of the flag, “To the ______” 33. Founding Father, composer, and designer of the flag 35. First movement of Morton Gould’s “American Ballads,” “Star-Spangled ________” 36. Bayreuth conductor scapegoated in Boston for failing to play “Banner” during WWI 38. Toscanini-era NBC Symphony producer, composer of “Star-Spangled Symphony” 41. Inventor who produced film “The Birth of the Star-Spangled Banner” for song’s 100th anniversary 42. Cellist, conductor, and operetta composer, who employs “Banner” in “American Fantasia” 43. Bayreuth composer whose “American Centennial March” alludes to “Banner”

Down 1. Joe Rosenthal meets Eddie Cantor: “There’s a New Flag on _______” 2. Irving Berlin likened the National Anthem to “a comfortable _____” 3. Quirky Canadian who concocted quodlibet on “God Save the Queen” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” 4. “Star and Stripes Forever” composer 5. In an orchestral score, “Flag.” is short for _________ 6. Puccini opera that uses “Banner” as recurring motif 7. First opera singer to perform “Banner” at a Super Bowl, in 2014 8. Composer of “How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning,” with “Reveille” chorus 11. Urban legend: composer arrested for confiscated “Banner” arrangement 13. Composer who quotes “The Anacreontick Song” in ill-fated musical “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” 15. Indomitable fort, inspiration for Francis Scott Key “Banner” text 19. Film composer who provided new arrangement for “Banner” 200th anniversary 20. Flag seamstress in Virgil Thomson’s “Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree” 22. Sousa march, dedicated to Fourth U.S. Cavalry, “______ for the Flag” 23. Half-mast bugle call 25. Caesarean given name of Cull, composer of “The Star-Spangled Banner with Brilliant Variations” 27. “The Battle Cry of Freedom” composer 29. Harry T. Burleigh setting of Whitman poem, “Ethiopia Saluting the ______” 32. Bugle call for raising of the flag 33. Russian-born virtuoso who celebrated U.S. citizenship by arranging “The Star and Stripes Forever” 34. In music, term for squiggle added to note stem to indicate beat division 37. Musical arranger for Balanchine “Stars and Stripes” ballet 38. “Grand Canyon Suite” composer, who also wrote “Ode to the Star-Spangled Banner” 39. “National Emblem March” composer 40. Spinach-eating sailor who dispatches foes to “Star and Stripes”