Steppin' Out

by John Child / Edited by George Barany and Friends

This "mid-week level" puzzle was released on an auspicious anniversary (pictorial hint to the right). You may also enjoy listening to any one of these musical selections (or listen to them in sequence) while solving the puzzle: click here, here, here, here, and/or here. After completing the puzzle (spoiler), learn more about the puzzle by clicking here for John's "midrash." 

Click here to view or download the puzzle in PDF format; here to download it as a puz file; here to download it as an ipuz file [requires the free Puzzazz app to solve]; here to solve the puzzle interactively (thanks to Jim Horne); here for the solution. John thanks Christopher Adams, Martin Ashwood-Smith, Steve Bachman, Howard Barkin, Ralph Bunker, Charles Flaster, Katherine Halpern, Brent Hartzell, Martin Herbach, Lewis Rothlein, Alex Vratsanos, Brad Wilber, and yours truly for beta testing the puzzle, and suggestions that improved it.

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More puzzles here (all) and here (tributes).

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