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| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, October 19, 2009 | 14A | Double-reed instrument | Lynn Lempel |
| Thursday, June 18, 2009 | 15A | Cousin of a heckelphone | Patrick Blindauer |
| Saturday, May 02, 2009 | 59A | Kind of reed | Peter A. Collins |
| Sunday, April 12, 2009 | 37D | "O" in the old Army phonetic alphabet | Eric Berlin |
| Tuesday, March 17, 2009 | 34A | Instrument held with two hands | Richard Chisholm |
| Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | 47A | Instrument you blow into | Oliver Hill |
| Sunday, November 09, 2008 | 100D | Wind in a pit | Paula Gamache |
| Sunday, October 19, 2008 | 8A | Wind with a wide range | Joe DiPietro |
| Tuesday, October 07, 2008 | 38A | Cousin of a bassoon | Kevin G. Der |
| Saturday, May 31, 2008 | 52D | One found in the woods | Robert H. Wolfe |
| Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | 48A | Double reed | David Pringle |
| Sunday, March 16, 2008 | 46D | Light wind? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 | 35A | ___ d'amore | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| Thursday, December 27, 2007 | 2D | Poulenc's "Sonata for ___ and Piano" | Jim Leeds |
| Thursday, December 06, 2007 | 5A | Certain aerophone | Joe Krozel |
| Monday, November 05, 2007 | 66A | Baby bassoon? | Jeremy Horwitz |
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 | 18D | Melancholy woodwind | Susan Harrington Smith |
| Thursday, August 23, 2007 | 44A | Letter before Peter in old radio lingo | Joe Krozel |
| Tuesday, August 21, 2007 | 15A | Double-reed woodwind | Tom Heilman |
| Wednesday, July 18, 2007 | 4D | Instrument with a conical bore | Tibor Derencsenyi |
| Sunday, June 03, 2007 | 79D | Radio letter between Nan and Peter | Kelsey Blakley |
| Sunday, April 08, 2007 | 79D | It's blown | Byron Walden |
| Sunday, March 04, 2007 | 76D | One of the winds | Randolph Ross |
| Thursday, January 04, 2007 | 47A | Concert wind | Alan Olschwang |
| Sunday, August 20, 2006 | 53A | Preceder of Peter in a phonetic alphabet | Richard Silvestri |
| Friday, May 05, 2006 | 30D | The duck in "Peter and the Wolf" | Manny Nosowsky |
| Wednesday, May 03, 2006 | 10D | "O" in a phonetic alphabet | Lisa Wiseman |
| Sunday, April 23, 2006 | 57D | Peter and the Wolf's "duck" | Joe DiPietro |
| Monday, April 03, 2006 | 47D | See 27-Across | Lynn Lempel |
| Monday, December 05, 2005 | 11D | Penetrating wind | Gary Steinmehl |
| Monday, November 21, 2005 | 14A | Bassoon's little cousin | Wesley Johnson |
| Monday, November 14, 2005 | 3D | Double-reed instrument | Marjorie Berg |
| Sunday, November 06, 2005 | 86D | Wind up on stage? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Sunday, October 30, 2005 | 79A | Tuning note instrument | Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr. |
| Tuesday, August 23, 2005 | 29D | Cousin of an English horn | Holden Baker and Nancy Salomon |
| Tuesday, July 05, 2005 | 15A | Double-reeded woodwind | Beth Hinshaw |
| Monday, June 20, 2005 | 67A | Slender woodwind | Alison Donald |
| Sunday, May 01, 2005 | 48D | Symphony member | Joe DiPietro |
| Tuesday, February 15, 2005 | 14A | Slender instrument | Gene Newman |
| Thursday, January 27, 2005 | 16A | ___ d'amore | Jim Hyres |
| Monday, January 10, 2005 | 15A | Cousin of a bassoon | David Pringle |
| Wednesday, December 15, 2004 | 35A | Cousin of a bassoon | Zach Jesse |
| Wednesday, November 10, 2004 | 31D | "O" in old radio lingo | David J. Kahn |
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 | 10D | Wind up on stage? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Wednesday, November 03, 2004 | 65A | Wind that can be piercing | Ed Early |
| Thursday, October 21, 2004 | 11D | Penetrating reed | Harvey Estes |
| Monday, August 23, 2004 | 68A | Certain woodwind | Nancy Salomon and Kyle Mahowald |
| Wednesday, July 07, 2004 | 16A | ___ family, including bassoons and English horns | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| Sunday, April 18, 2004 | 15D | Woodwind | Richard Chisholm |
| Monday, April 05, 2004 | 14A | Old radio word for the letter O | Jim Hyres |
| Monday, November 24, 2003 | 18A | Musical instrument that's blown into | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| Tuesday, October 21, 2003 | 14A | Slender instrument | John Underwood |
| Tuesday, August 05, 2003 | 13A | Woodwind | D. J. DeChristopher |
| Tuesday, June 17, 2003 | 37A | Plaintive woodwind | Susan Harrington Smith |
| Monday, June 02, 2003 | 2D | Relative of an English horn | Gregory E. Paul |
| Friday, April 04, 2003 | 20A | Certain 55-Across | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| Sunday, January 19, 2003 | 107D | Orchestra seat | Eric Berlin |
| Sunday, January 05, 2003 | 22A | Symphony member | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Tuesday, September 10, 2002 | 56A | Reed in a pit | Wei-Hwa Huang |
| Monday, June 03, 2002 | 58D | Clarinet's kin | Gregory E. Paul |
| Sunday, May 26, 2002 | 38D | It has finger holes | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Wednesday, February 20, 2002 | 2D | Reed instrument | Marjorie Richter |
| Monday, January 14, 2002 | 57A | Woodwind | Michael Shteyman |
| Monday, December 10, 2001 | 2D | Instrument played with the mouth | Gregory E. Paul |
| Sunday, September 30, 2001 | 118A | Certain band member | Con Pederson |
| Monday, September 24, 2001 | 11D | Woodwind | Norma Steinberg |
| Wednesday, September 19, 2001 | 56D | Woodwind instrument | Steven Dorfman |
| Monday, August 27, 2001 | 45A | Tubular instrument | Holden Baker |
| Friday, May 18, 2001 | 42A | Wind in a pit | Joe DiPietro |
| Monday, May 07, 2001 | 45D | Long, thin musical instrument | Nancy Salomon and Bob Frank |
| Monday, April 23, 2001 | 53D | Mitch Miller's instrument | Gregory E. Paul |
| Sunday, April 01, 2001 | 2D | "O" in old radio lingo | Bill Zais and Nancy Salomon |
| Thursday, January 18, 2001 | 54A | Wind instrument | Manny Nosowsky |
| Thursday, January 04, 2001 | 11D | Kin to a clarinet | Nancy S. Ross |
| Monday, December 04, 2000 | 59D | Woodwind | Eileen Lexau |
| Monday, November 27, 2000 | 57A | Cousin of the bassoon | Nancy Salomon and Marjorie Berg |
| Sunday, October 08, 2000 | 73D | Organ stop | Richard Silvestri |
| Thursday, June 08, 2000 | 33A | Reed section member | Mark Diehl |
| Monday, May 15, 2000 | 15A | Woodwind | Gregory E. Paul |
| Monday, April 24, 2000 | 11D | Woodwind | Peter Gordon |
| Wednesday, February 09, 2000 | 2D | Reed section member | Charles E. Gersch |
| Friday, January 21, 2000 | 45D | Snake charmer, in musician's slang | John Wolting |
| Friday, December 10, 1999 | 53D | Kind of concerto | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| Friday, October 22, 1999 | 36D | Concerto instrument | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| Sunday, October 10, 1999 | 35D | Shawm descendant | Cathy Millhauser |
| Wednesday, September 01, 1999 | 57D | Slender reed | Alan Arbesfeld |
| Sunday, August 29, 1999 | 101D | "O" in old radio lingo | Lou and Fran Sabin |
| Tuesday, June 08, 1999 | 22D | Long, slender instrument | Fred Piscop |
| Monday, June 07, 1999 | 55D | Double reed | Robert O. Dillman |
| Monday, May 10, 1999 | 14A | Woodwind | Frances Hansen |
| Tuesday, April 20, 1999 | 39D | Wind quintet member | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Monday, April 19, 1999 | 31D | Sweet-toned musical instrument | Gregory E. Paul |
| Monday, March 22, 1999 | 54D | Instrument that's blown into | Gregory E. Paul |
| Thursday, March 04, 1999 | 25D | It's in the winds | Cathy Millhauser |
| Monday, February 15, 1999 | 29D | Hand-held musical instrument | Randall J. Hartman |
| Wednesday, December 02, 1998 | 15A | Double-reed woodwind | Nancy Salomon |
| Monday, August 17, 1998 | 57D | Cousin of a bassoon | Gregory E. Paul |
| Monday, June 22, 1998 | 68A | Woodwind | Shannon Burns |
| Wednesday, June 03, 1998 | 63A | Philharmonic part | Karen Hodge |
| Thursday, April 23, 1998 | 39D | Orchestra part | Cathy Millhauser |
| Tuesday, April 07, 1998 | 3D | Bassoon's cousin | Randy Sowell |
| Thursday, March 26, 1998 | 27D | Word from the French for "high wood" | Cathy Millhauser |
| Tuesday, January 20, 1998 | 39A | Cousin of the English horn | Randall J. Hartman |
| Sunday, December 28, 1997 | 38D | ___ d'amore | Matt Gaffney |
| Monday, October 27, 1997 | 2D | Clarinet cousin | Mark Gottlieb |
| Thursday, October 23, 1997 | 16A | "O" in old radio lingo | Frances Hansen |
| Tuesday, October 14, 1997 | 35A | Woodwind | Robert Malinow |
| Tuesday, September 30, 1997 | 54A | Double-reed instrument | Nancy Schuster |
| Monday, September 22, 1997 | 56D | Mitch Miller's instrument | Gregory E. Paul |
| Monday, August 04, 1997 | 64A | Mitch Miller's instrument | Gregory E. Paul |
| Sunday, April 20, 1997 | 75A | Its pitch is high | Charles M. Deber |
| Sunday, March 09, 1997 | 21A | Ensemble part | June Boggs |
| Thursday, March 06, 1997 | 15A | Cousin of a clarinet | Shannon Burns |
| Wednesday, February 26, 1997 | 38A | Double-reed instrument | Glenn E. Sykes |
| Sunday, February 09, 1997 | 58D | Relative of the English horn | D. Niles |
| Tuesday, December 17, 1996 | 58A | Mitch Miller's instrument | G. E. Paul |
| Sunday, July 28, 1996 | 48A | Double-reed | N. S. Wizer |
| Sunday, May 19, 1996 | 92D | ___d'amour | C.M. Deber |
| Friday, April 19, 1996 | 51D | Orchestra part | A. Micci |
| Friday, March 29, 1996 | 12D | Wide-range reed | C. Millhauser |
| Wednesday, March 13, 1996 | 40D | "O" to ham operators, once | W. R. Williams |
| Sunday, February 04, 1996 | 108D | Kind of pipe | D.J. Kahn |
| Monday, January 15, 1996 | 7D | Cousin of the bassoon | Gregory E. Paul |
| Sunday, January 14, 1996 | 109D | Shawm descendant | C. Millhauser |
| Wednesday, January 10, 1996 | 2D | Melancholy instrument | M. Gaffney |
| Monday, December 18, 1995 | 56D | Hautboy | Randall J. Hartman |
| Wednesday, October 25, 1995 | 16A | Sound lower than a flute | Larry Nargi |
| Tuesday, September 26, 1995 | 58A | Cousin of the English horn | Bob Klahn & Raymond Hamel |
| Tuesday, August 22, 1995 | 6D | Bassoon relative | Gregory E. Paul |
| Monday, August 21, 1995 | 36A | Slender instrument | Sidney L. Robbins |
| Sunday, July 23, 1995 | 19A | Tubular instrument | Fran & Lou Sabin |
| Monday, June 19, 1995 | 8D | Orchestral instrument | Gregory E. Paul |
| Thursday, June 01, 1995 | 7D | O, once, to hams | Rich Norris |
| Tuesday, May 09, 1995 | 37D | Relative of the English horn | Gregory E. Paul |
| Wednesday, May 03, 1995 | 21A | Woodwind | Chuck Deodene |
| Sunday, April 30, 1995 | 28A | _____ d'amore (baroque instrument) | Warren W. Reich |
| Sunday, February 12, 1995 | 15D | Penetrating wind | Alex & Victoria Black |
| Thursday, February 02, 1995 | 16A | Mitch Miller's instrument | Bob and Sharon Klahn |
| Tuesday, January 03, 1995 | 54A | Cousin of the English horn | Rich Norris |
| Sunday, December 11, 1994 | 10D | The duck in "Peter and the Wolf" | Wayne Robert Williams |
| Thursday, November 24, 1994 | 14A | Heckelphone | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| Wednesday, November 09, 1994 | 38A | Hautboy | Wayne Robert Williams |
| Wednesday, September 28, 1994 | 16A | Woodwind | Robert Zimmerman |
| Monday, September 26, 1994 | 62A | Relative of the heckelphone | Sidney L. Robbins |
| Monday, August 29, 1994 | 58A | Double-reed woodwind | Mary Derderian Brown |
| Friday, August 12, 1994 | 27D | Reed | Norman S. Wizer |
| Tuesday, July 12, 1994 | 15A | Woodwind | Charles Arnold |
| Tuesday, May 03, 1994 | 61A | Mitch Miller's instrument | Lois Sidway |
| Monday, May 02, 1994 | 60A | Woodwind instrument | James L. Beatty |
| Sunday, March 20, 1994 | 89A | Tuneful pipe | Joel Davajan |
| Thursday, March 03, 1994 | 59A | Philharmonic instrument | Richard Silvestri |
| Monday, February 07, 1994 | 66A | Relative of the flute | Sidney L. Robbins |
| Friday, January 14, 1994 | 27D | The duck in "Peter and the Wolf" | Eric Albert |
| Sunday, January 09, 1994 | 40D | Organ stop | Mel Rosen |
| Tuesday, November 30, 1993 | 16A | Literally "high wood" | Joel Davajan |
| Tuesday, November 23, 1993 | 60A | Reed of note | Lois Sidway |