Country Music Hits
Crossword Clues “B”
Retro Rhyme Time
A View from on High
100

This country singer is best known for hits like “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and “Love Is the Foundation.”


Who is Loretta Lynn?

100

He was an actor and twice-husband of Elizabeth Taylor.


Who is (Richard) Burton?

100

This is the author of the 1965 book Fox in Socks.


Who is Dr. Seuss (or Theodor Seuss Geisel)?

100

Your cart sways at the top of this circular ride at the amusement park.


What is a Ferris wheel?

200

June Carter and Merle Kilgore co-wrote this 1963 hit, considered one of Johnny Cash’s signature songs.


What is “Ring of Fire”?

200

This was the profession of Muhammad Ali.


 What is boxer?

200

An ’80s slang saying advises taking one of these as a means to relax or loosen up.


What is a chill pill?

200

You’re flying high in this wicker basket propelled by propane or butane.


What is a hot-air balloon?

300

Her No. 1 country hits include “Joshua,” “Jolene,” and “I Will Always Love You.”


Who is Dolly Parton?

300

This was the barrier dividing East and West Germany until the late 1980s.


What is the Berlin Wall?


300

In a 1984 rock ’n’ roll hit, Sammy Hagar laments, “I can’t drive”—this.


What is 55?

300

The most breathtaking views of this 278-mile-long Arizona gorge are from the air.

What is the Grand Canyon?

400

Some of his No. 1 hits include “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Gentle on My Mind,” and “Wichita Lineman.”


Who is Glen Campbell?

400

This is the first name of the star of the film Funny Girl.


What is Barbra? Streisand

400

This actress with a rhyming name stars in films including 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde and 1981’s Mommie Dearest.



Who is Faye Dunaway?


400

The Walt Disney character Peter Pan can fly with the aid of “lovely wonderful thoughts” and this.


What is fairy dust?

500

This musician’s 1975 No. 1 hit “Thank God I’m a CountryBoy” is an ode to laid-back, rural life.


 Who is John Denver?

500

This is the location of a failed invasion of Cuba in 1961.


What is the Bay of Pigs?

500

This is a rhyming nickname for a Volkswagen Beetle.

Slug bug or Plug bug?


What is slug bug?

500

This is the tallest building in North America.


What is the CN Tower?