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Across 4. Doesn’t play the fiddle, but dances, in light music classic by Ernest Bucalossi 7. Telemann symphony cheery chirper 9. Ferde Grofé cricket locale 11. Vaughan Williams incidental insects, after Aristophanes 12. Queen Mab’s coachman, according to Mercutio 15. “Flashy” Rudolf Friml operetta, “The _______” 17. Band (insect homophone) that issued John Tavener’s “The Whale” 18. Luminous insect idyll from Paul Lincke’s “Lysistrata” (two words) 23. The Police frontman, recorded lute songs by Dowland 24. Boito operatic devil, compares himself to cricket trilling with pride 26. Another name for Cio-Cio-San 28. Apiary abode, title of Joseph Lamb rag 29. Composer of landmark 1970 quartet, begins and ends with “Night of the Electric Insects” 30. Insect danced by Moira Shearer in prologue to Powell-Pressburger “The Tales of Hoffmann” 32. Mysterious, mountain-loving composer of “Love Song Vanishing into Sounds of Crickets” 34. Conjurors’ preferred implement of punishment for Joplin’s Treemonisha (two words) 35. Mice into horses, grasshoppers and dragonflies into these, in Prokofiev’s “Cinderella” 36. Prospero servant who sings, “Where the bee sucks, there suck I” 37. Bartók winged nuisance and diarist 39. Cricket star-wisher 41. Arithmetical insect in Frank Loesser song, introduced by Danny Kaye 42. North American variant of “ladybird,” spotty lullaby subject of Billy Mayerl “Insect Oddities” 43. “Singing” insect subject of Josquin’s “El Grillo” 44. Leopold-impersonating conductor in “Long-Haired Hare” 45. Subject of Birtwistle requiem for flying insect trapped inside piano 46. “Foxy” heroine of Janacek opera featuring cricket child, grasshopper child, and mosquito 47. Host of Roussel garden insect banquet

Down 1. “Second Viennese” composer who died from insect sting 2. Nickname bestowed by publisher on busy Chopin Etude in F minor (plural) 3. Devout subject of Billy Mayerl “Insect Oddities” (two words) 5. Composed “Scherzo Fantastique” after having read Maeterlinck’s “Life of the Bees” 6. Rolling beetles in Kalevi Aho “Insect Symphony,” derived from opera after Čapek 8. Tymbal-playing insects referenced in Meira Warshauer symphony, “Living, Breathing Earth” 10. Fanciful English country dance, or fly larva 13. His ballet “La Cigale” (“The Cicada”) is really inspired by “The Grasshopper and the Ant” 14. Subject of Mephistopheles song at Auerbach’s Cellar 16. Fred L. Moreland march for too-cute woodlice (or terrifying antlions), “Parade of the __________” 18. Insect subject of Shostakovich film score, yielded well-known “Romance” 19. Rimsky insect 20. Bumpy 1907 insect rag by Edwin F. Kendall, “________ Bites” 21. Amy Beach flashers 22. Chaminade butterflies 25. Buzz-generating piece by François Schubert 26. Martinu ballet after Kipling “Just So” story, “The _________ That Stamped” 27. Unpalatable term for incessantly memorable tune 31. Flighty subjects of Gautier text set by Debussy and Chausson (in French) 33. Frederic Cowen alliterative overture for dancing insects, “The Butterfly’s ____” 38. Harbinger of good fortune in Mackenzie overture after Dickens’ hearth tale 40. Mothra composer 42. “Israel in Egypt” crop-destroyers