Ravinia 2026 Issue 6

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 Ravinia Crossword by Aimee Lucido ACROSS 1. Hairstyle for Questlove 5. Father to Ziggy, who is performing at Ravinia on Sept. 8. Frittata ingredient 11. Soundcloud-famous EDM producer 12. Orangutan or gorilla 13. Tequila cocktail, colloquially 15. Ravinia’s newly renovated main venue 19. “People ___ Strange” ( e Doors song) 20. “Leave that to me!” 22. Concert venue 25. To and ___ 27. Famed Chicago pizzeria 28. Eye uncomfortably 29. Topples (over) 31. Individual thing 32. Auction o er 33. Equal share among a pair 34. “ e Loco-Motion” singer Little ___ 36. Annual celebration of Mexican music, happening on Sept. 41. Liquid fuel, despite its name 42. Attention-getting sound 43. Bad thing to chew while singing 45. Singer Lawrence of “Heaven to Me,” opening for Alison Krauss at Ravinia on Sept. 48. _____ Station (long-standing backing band for Alison Krauss) 50. Femur, ulna, or clavicle 51. Quaker grain 52. Nonspeci c amount 53. Singer Brooks who helped Martina McBride (performing at Ravinia on Sept. ) get her start 54. One-named Barbadian singer 58. Musician’s asset 59. Singer of “Independence Day,” performing at Ravinia on Sept. 65. Type of salamander 66. Tech exec 67. Major musical work 68. Madison and State, for short 69. “___ I Need” (song by Olivia Dean) 70. Connecting point DOWN 1. Residue in an incense burner 2. Winter ailment 3. Wood of e Rolling Stones 4. Power failure 5. Like many trees in winter 6. Antithesis, brie y 7. e Golden Girls co-star Arthur 8. First name that’s a fruit spelled backward 9. Nerve 10. Graph paper pattern 14. Leave home 16. Poetic “before” 17. Stringed instrument of the Renaissance 18. Highest Sudoku digit 21. “She’s a Lady” singer Jones, performing at Ravinia on Sept. 22. Ugly cry 23. End-of-workweek cheer 24. German-based grocery store chain 25. Afrobeat musician Kuti 26. A chorus line? 29. Crispy Japanese cutlet 30. Number of Grammys won by Jacob Collier, performing at Ravinia on Sept. 31. “At Seventeen” singer Janis 33. Before-tax fund for medical expenses, for short 35. Partner of vigor 37. Diva’s problem 38. Mariner’s greeting 39. Composer Stravinsky 40. Grandma’s daughter 44. Unimpressed assessment 45. e Raptors, on scoreboards 46. Women in Music Pt. III trio 47. Musical wunderkind Bortnick 49. Bread from a tandoor 50. Founder of a nancial weekly 53. Chatter away 55. Greek Mars 56. Food pkg. info 57. Petty critiques 58. MBA course 60. Org. that gave -Across its Icon Award in 61. Female rapper with the hit “Paper Planes” 62. NYSE debut 63. Total bust 64. U-turn from WNW Solution on page 65 Aimee Lucido writes crosswords for the New York Times , the New Yorker , AVCX, and many other publications. She also is the author of several books for kids, including Emmy in the Key of Code , Recipe for Disaster , and Pasta Pasta Lotsa Pasta . aimeelucido.com RAVINIA.ORG • RAVINIAMAGAZINE 25