Pioneering blues musician Taj ___ Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

MUSICIAN (noun)
1. someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
2. artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
BLUES (noun)
1. a state of depression
2. a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes

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1. Bulletin-board insert

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12. Italian fruit liqueur

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15. She wrote in 1931 that anarchism meant “freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things”

16. Singer with the album “1000 Forms of Fear”

17. Boxer Max whose son was in “The Beverly Hillbillies”

18. Responses to an offer, colloquially

19. It’s sometimes followed by an “S,” for “secure”

20. Simchat ___ (Jewish celebration that includes the year’s first reading from Genesis)

22. ___ lo tanto (therefore, in Spain)

23. Caterpillar competitor

24. Keeps after taxes

26. Wolf Hall novelist Hilary

27. What some peanuts are made of

30. Is down with

31. Palestinian activist detained by ICE following his involvement in campus protests at Columbia

33. “Tennessee ___” (Grateful Dead track)

34. They’re slightly sweeter than turnips

35. “Crises of the Republic” author Hannah

37. Bravos at a bullfight

38. “Pink Friday” Grammy nominee Nicki

39. Glutinous substance

41. Houston ball club, informally

45. Contributes

46. Drink akin to a Cape Codder, for short

48. Garment that may be draped nivi-style

49. Hour on a grandfather clock

50. Woman who co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World familiarly

52. Is able to

53. Playfully, in music

54. He directed Michelle in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”

55. Planner of very long trips

56. Bit of Dionysian debauchery

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Down

1. One seen courtside?

2. “Immortal” flower in “Paradise Lost”

3. Low-level functionary, so to speak

4. Etch A Sketch control

5. “So many souls / ___ the millstones like grain”: George Seferis, “Helen”

6. Film-score composer Bernstein

7. Regretfully

8. Heavy weight

9. Request while holding a spoon

10. Do my eyes deceive me?

11. Hitching posts?

12. 😂

13. Removes from the paper, as coupons

15. ___ card (necessity for accessing SNAP benefits)

19. Avian namesake of Haydn’s Symphony No. 83

21. 1993 R. & B. hit with the lyric “Keep playin’ that song all night”

23. They’re sought in court

25. Rainbow ___

27. Cause of a breakdown at a theatre, perhaps

28. Pharmaceuticals overseer: Abbr.

29. Put-down popularized on TikTok in 2019

31. Line in acupuncture

32. Wedding band’s announcement

33. Island where Tacky’s Revolt and the Baptist War took place

36. King's Disease rapper

39. Peoples that included the Thervingi and Greuthungi

40. Just Mercy actor __ Jackson Jr.

42. Lustful

43. Cookie in dirt pudding

44. Term of address often used on “RuPaul’s Drag Race”

46. Drug-yielding plant

47. Ingredient in Italian wedding soup, sometimes

50. Web portal with a butterfly logo

51. Something jam-packed?

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