Benny Goodman’s specialty Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. in baseball; a batter’s attempt to hit a pitched ball
2. a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
(verb)
1. make a big sweeping gesture or movement
2. move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SPECIALTY (noun)
1. an asset of special worth or utility
2. a distinguishing trait
GOODMAN (noun)
1. United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986)

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
WINGS

More WSJ Crossword (10/19/2024) Answers

Across

1. Embodiment of innocence

5. "Dukes"

10. Destinations for me days

14. Plot unit

18. Sport with counterattacks

19. Blatant

20. Philatelist’s find

21. Chew toy for a bad dog

22. What to wear when Donald Duck’s nephew is trending?

24. Showy bird that stoops to entertaining the masses?

26. Samples

27. Urgently entreat

29. Sarcastic remark

30. German prison camps

33. First game in a series

34. Be a burden

36. Ella and Louis tune, e.g.

37. Do some research

38. Semicircular letters

40. Hasty escape

41. “The Golden Bachelor” airer

44. Ooze

46. Escort to the penthouse

48. Soothing stuff

49. Confused waterfowl?

51. Song to sing while slow-cooking dinner in a hole in the ground?

54. Blows it

55. Blow one's top

57. Spotted

58. Kidney-based

63. Keyed in

67. Third col. heading, often

68. What you find in eight of this puzzle’s answers...or what you do when you say them aloud?

73. Classic British record label

74. Feeder visitor

76. "Parsifal" prop

77. Rival of Paris

79. More disgusting

82. Wiped out

85. Unlikely candidate for prom king

86. Stampede of newly sheared sheep?

91. Hem?

93. Amorous archer

94. Amorous in excess

95. It's used to walk the dog

96. Word on a Ouija board

97. Relay segment

98. Tiddlywink, e.g.

100. Leaves home?

103. Does some course maintenance

105. Bistro summons

107. Bee keeper

109. Performed a canticle, e.g.

113. Proceed with minimal effort

114. Raleigh resident, e.g.

116. “Name ANYBODY better than me! Hah!”

117. Lead in a film about the wonders of origami?

119. Hip-hop performance earning polite applause?

122. Inactive

123. When a turn might be allowed

124. Tithing amount

125. That's all there ___ it!

126. Egg setting

127. Impudence

128. Lieu

129. Off! ingredient

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Down

1. Some jabs

2. Isolated

3. TV, radio, etc

4. Spotted

5. Opposing force

6. Brown, e.g.

7. Son of Ramesses I

8. House shaker

9. Unforested expanse

10. Warehouse

11. Some picnic supplies

12. Bass booster

13. Coinage

14. Music rights org.

15. 2000 Juliette Binoche film

16. Icy street application

17. “We need to get a cat!”

20. Poet’s two-syllable foot

23. Olympics chant

25. Hug providers

28. Minimal amount

31. V constituents

32. Have the helm

35. One of 11 for Julia Louis-Dreyfus

39. Auto-injector brand

41. Phone beeps, often

42. Remained cheerful in troubled times

43. Pupil's cover

45. Comma connotation

47. Mother for 1-Across

48. Remain

50. Secretive govt. org.

51. Con game

52. Sardine containers

53. Inhibit

56. On-off switch abbr.

59. Gomez and Morticia’s butler

61. Hide-hair connector

62. Grind as teeth

64. Set right

65. Come to light

66. TV screen components

69. Potent puff

70. Takes turns

71. Hardly guzzle

72. Plaintive piece

75. Purges

78. Number that’s not composite or prime

80. Class-conscious group?

81. Hwys

83. Osaka from Osaka

84. “The Other” author Thomas

86. Neth. neighbor

87. Numerical prefix, of a sort

88. Exchanges favors for votes, in Congress

89. Not nude

90. Variety of dark grape

92. Dagwood sports one

98. Two tablets, say

99. Emcees' deliveries

101. Builds

102. Lace place

104. Sleazy

106. Student in uniform

108. Reacts to a ghost, perhaps

110. Hospital cry

111. Make merry

112. Bus station

115. Pool division

117. Bass part

118. Genetic info carrier

120. Sch. fundraiser, often

121. Third degree?

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