Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone
- 3 Across
- Something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted (plural)
- 5 Across
- Wrongly understood
- 8 Across
- Style of music with improvisation, born in New Orleans
- 9 Across
- United States astronaut
- 10 Across
- A four-stringed instrument usually played with a bow.
- 11 Across
- People who have severe hearing impairments
- 12 Across
- The last day before Lent
- 15 Across
- Producing musical sounds with the voice.
- 16 Across
- Someone devoted to the promotion of ___ welfare and to social reforms
- 1 Down
- Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
- 2 Down
- People who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
- 4 Down
- A port and largest city in Louisiana
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- The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
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- Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest
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- A musical percussion instrument (plural)
- 14 Down