Musicals
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Mythic Constellations
Crossword Clues "Z"
100

This song from "The Sound of Music" mentions "brown paper packages tied up with strings"

My Favorite Things

100

You'll find these 2 states on Colorado's eastern border

Kansas & Nebraska

100

Bananas are rich in this element that controls the body's fluid balance, providing more than almost any other fruit

Potassium

100

This constellation depicts the creature that fatally stung Orion

Scorpio

100

Blemish (3)

Zit

200

Ben Platt reprised the role of the title teen with a broken arm when this Broadway musical became a 2021 film

Dear Evan Hansen

200

Of the "Four Corners" states, this is the southwestern one

Arizona

200

The breakfast fruit comes in three different flesh colors: red, pink, & white (which is actually yellow)

Grapefruit

200

Leo is a lion--& not just any lion, but the Nemean one slain by this hero

Hercules

200

African mammal of the genus Equus (5)

Zebra

300

Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" won Tonys for their work on this musical about Elder Price & Elder Cunningham

The Book of Mormon

300

You probably know what's on North Dakota's Souther border; on its western border is this state

Montana

300

Named for a city in Morocco, it's the most common type of Mandarin orange in the U.S.

Tangerine

300

As a constellation & as a sign of the zodiac, Virgo is associated with this daughter of Demeter

Persephone

300

Colloquial name for Coordinated Universal Time (4)

Zulu

400

Act I of this long-running musical starts with the song "Think Of Me" & ends with a chandelier crashing

Phantom of the Opera

400

Delaware's southern border is with this state

Maryland

400

Up to 88% of this green-skinned fruit's calories are fat

Avacado

400

Carina--the keel, Puppis--the stern, & Vela--the sails--once sailed the sky as part of a larger constellation named for this ship

The Argo
400

Part of the East African republic of Tanzania (8)

Zanzibar

500

He played silent film star Don Lockwood, who liked the glorious feelin' of "Singin' in the Rain"

Gene Kelly

500

It's the number of states that border the Gulf of Mexico

Five

500

The name of this peach-like fruit comes from that of the mythological drink of the gods

Nectarine

500

5 stars form a "W" in this constellation named for a mythic queen of Ethiopia

Cassiopeia

500

General trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time (9)

Zeitgeist