Clues for the word "ALTO"
We've had 628 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 2481 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on August 23, 2026.
Definition of alto
- n. - Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.
- n. - An alto singer.
Referring Clues
- Like Charlie Parker's sax
- Palo ___, Calif.
- Countertenor
- Doo-wop part
- Quarter of a quartet, maybe
- Violist's clef
- Kind of sax
- Kind of horn
- Like a certain sax
- Choir voice
- Annina in "Der Rosenkavalier"
- Trujillo ___ (Puerto Rican city)
- ___-relievo
- Like some singing
- "___ voltaje!" (Spanish warning)
- Choir part
- Kind of clef
- Choir member
- Part in an ensemble
- Marian Anderson, for one
- Mezzo's colleague
- Kind of flute
- Part of a chorus
- Voice below soprano
- Start of some cloud names
- Low woman
- A chorus line
- Second voice
- Treble clef singer
- Member of the chorus
- Doo-wop group member
- Like Woody Herman's sax
- Chorus member
- Like un monte
- Viola's range
- Brahms's "___ Rhapsody"
- Voice range
- High in the Andes
- Voice above bass
- One not ending on a high note?
- Like some winds
- Kind of recorder
- Countertenor's counterpart
- Glee club member
- Chorus girl
- High man
- Low woman?
- ___ saxophone
- Chorus girl?
- A chorister
- See 118-Across
- Member of an instrument family
- Midrange voice
- Certain voice
- Middle part
- Deep-voiced, for a woman
- Voice above a tenor
- Middle sax?
- Orfeo, e.g., in Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice"
- Opera villainess, typically
- Prefix in cloud names
- Word on a Mexican stop sign
- High, in Honduras
- ___ Horn
- Lola, e.g., in "Damn Yankees"
- Lola in "Damn Yankees," e.g.
- Range of some robe wearers
- Chorus voice
- Word with flute or horn
- Saxophone type
- Middle range
- Clarinet type
- Choral voice
- Quartet member
- One in a four-part harmony
- Certain castrato
- Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd," for one
- Prefix with cumulus
- Sax type
- Singing voice
- Treble clef reader
- Saxophone size
- Recorder range
- Vocal range
- Palo ___, California
- Her voice is deep
- Low-voiced lady
- High guy
- Charlie Parker's sax
- High voice
- Type of flute
- Low female singing voice
- Chorale member
- "Sweet Adeline" range
- Voice above tenor
- Flute or saxophone variety
- Low-voiced woman
- She's lower than a soprano
- Shania Twain or Karen Carpenter
- High man's voice
- Glee club voice
- Male singing voice
- Karen Carpenter or Shania Twain
- English horn's range
- Range under soprano
- Opera villainess, often
- Type of sax
- Pitch of some saxophones
- Voice in a chorus
- Second-highest part, usually
- Opera villainess, usually
- Range of some choristers
- Singer above a tenor
- Quartet member, maybe
- "Inner voice" hidden in five puzzle answers
- Saxophone range
- See 39-Down
- Range below soprano
- A cappella group part
- Midrange voice type
- ___-relievo (kind of sculpture)
- Singing part
- Harmony part, perhaps
- Part of SATB
- Certain sax
- High in the Sierra Madre?
- It's high in the Sierras
- Second-highest choir voice
- "___ Rhapsody": Brahms vocal work
- Chorus line
- Beginner's sax, usually
- Choir voice below soprano
- One under a mezzo
- Palo ___
- One whose range typically starts at F below middle C
- Singing range of most women
- Choral part
- Soprano's colleague
- Sax range
- Motet part
- Female singing voice
- Female voice
- Female voice range
- Female singing range
- Palo ___, CA
- Female opera villain, often
- Cher, e.g.
- Certain chorister
- Female choir voice
- Low female voice
- Choir range
- Choral singer
- Female choir member
- Voice below a soprano
- Singing range
- Middle voice
- Choral-score line
- Second-highest voice in a four-part chorus
- Soprano alternative
- Bird played it
- Four-part part
- Certain female voice
- Certain singing voice
- Like some saxes
- Shania Twain, for one
- Certain carol singer
- Type of clef or horn
- Chorus part
- Choral category
- Vocal quartet member, perhaps
- Brahms' "___ Rhapsody"
- Second-highest in four-part harmony
- Certain vocal range
- Saxophone variety
- Sax section member
- Certain sax range
- Lowest female voice
- Second highest, in a family of instruments
- Paul Desmond's sax
- Highest man or lowest woman
- Cannonball Adderley's sax
- Sax sort
- Highest adult male singing voice
- Between tenor and mezzo-soprano
- Brahms' "___Rhapsody"
- Barbershopper
- Viola clef
- "Hold it," in Spain
- Voice between soprano and tenor
- High male voice
- Voice in the chorus
- Opera villainess, sometimes
- Brahms' "___ Rhapsody"
- Chorister
- Cumulus lead-in
- Low voice
- Deep-voiced songstress
- A choir member
- Violist's clef, perhaps
- Type of clarinet
- Certain saxophone
- Countertenor range
- Type of clef
- Four-part harmony part
- Certain singer
- Low woman at the Met
- Tenor neighbor
- Member of the choir
- A certain chorister
- Palo ___, CA
- Cantata participant
- Sax variety
- Doo-wop voice
- Harmony part, often
- Low-down singer?
- Voice in the choir
- Katisha's range in "The Mikado," usually
- High, in Havana
- Palo ___, Calif.
- Certain choir member
- Sax type played by Charlie Parker
- Chorister's voice
- Chorale contributor
- Mexican "stop" sign
- Carol part
- It's high in Peru
- A cappella range
- Shania Twain, e.g.
- Sax type for Charlie Parker
- Cantata part
- Range of some saxophones
- Liza Minnelli, for one
- Opposite of bajo
- Palo ___
- "___ Rhapsody": Brahms vocal work
- Quartet quarter
- High, in the Andes
- Quartet member, often
- Part of SATB, chorally
- Like Cannonball Adderley's sax
- Lea Michele on "Glee," e.g.
- Kind of saxophone
- Kind of flute or horn
- Range above tenor
- A kind of sax
- Glee club part
- Voice from a loft
- Range between soprano and tenor
- Sax played by Cannonball or Bird
- Word on Mexican stop signs
- Four-part chorus member
- Quarter of a quartet, perhaps
- Highest male voice
- Sax object?
- Choral range
- Cher, for one
- Horn for Cannonball or Bird
- Sax register
- Clarinet range
- Singer's range
- Guy who's high in a loft?
- Choir singer
- 33-Across range
- Saxo-phone range
- Counter-tenor
- Low-singing female
- A type of saxophone
- Middle harmony part
- Vocal quartet member
- 21-Down member
- Toni Braxton, for one
- Musical voice
- It's between soprano and tenor
- Like a lot of saxes
- One above a tenor
- Charlie Parker's saxophone type
- Cannonball Adderley's sax type
- Norah Jones or Cher
- Type of trombone
- Italian for "high"
- Woman in a choir
- Woman in the choir
- Like some singing voices
- Choral singing part
- ___ sax
- Part for a singer
- Baritone colleague
- Tenor's higher-up
- Type of saxophone
- Female singer
- Quartet voice
- Taylor Swift, for one
- Kind of sax or singer
- Certain choirboy
- Musical range
- Choral designation
- Lowest female singing voice
- Highest male singing voice
- Choir section
- Sax played by Charlie and Maceo Parker
- Tenor's neighbor
- Mezzo's choirmate
- Word describing some instruments
- Countertenor's range
- Voice type that figures into this puzzle's theme
- Choir female
- Soprano's neighbor
- Kind of clef or sax
- Recital voice
- ___ clef
- One quarter of a quartet
- Middle harmony choral part
- The role of Katisha in "The Mikado," traditionally
- Adele or Cher, voicewise
- Flute range
- Kind of sax played by Maceo Parker
- Patsy cline's range
- ___ flute
- Many a Vienna Boys' Choir boy
- Female voice type
- Sax for Bird
- Met performer
- Justice Samuel
- Kind of saxaphone
- Bonnie Raitt, for one
- Countertenor counterpart
- Tijuana traffic sign
- High tenor
- Voice higher than tenor
- Part of the range that's widely accessible?
- Mama Rose in "Gypsy," e.g.
- Mimi, in "Rent"
- Alicia Keys or Adele, e.g.
- Quartet's need
- Chorus line?
- Kind of singer
- Female choral voice
- Parker's sax, e.g.
- Choir role
- She's deep
- With 34-Across, concert band instrument
- Ethel Merman, for one
- Certain 57-Down singer
- Part below mezzo
- Certain opera singer
- "Stop!" in Spain
- Cher's voice range
- Kind of trombone
- Viola's clef
- Singing range of many women
- Chorale's need
- Adele, voicewise
- Low woman in a choir
- Choir woman
- Female chorus member
- A chorus voice
- Member of a mixed quartet
- Many a woman, vocally
- Certain voice range
- Meteorological lead-in to stratus
- Voice in a quartet
- Clarinet intro?
- Coloratura extent
- ___ clarinet
- Kind of saxophone or clef
- Type of choir voice
- Quartet part
- Adele, vocally
- Boys' choir voice
- Contralto
- Cher or Adele, e.g.
- Kind of clef, voice or sax
- Type of voice in a choir
- Range significantly higher than 5-Across
- Certain soloist
- Operatic voice
- Lead-in to cumulus
- Bird's sax type
- Tall, in Tijuana
- High, to Miguel
- Musical clef
- Voice part
- Section of the choir
- Singing voice in the glee club
- Choral voice range
- Voice range between soprano and tenor
- Certain voice in a chorus
- Low choral part
- One voice
- Low vocal range, maybe
- A certain choir voice
- Low part in a womens' choir
- C, or ___ clef
- Deep-voiced, for a singing woman
- She can reach pretty low
- Singing voice type
- Second-highest voice
- Low-voiced woman in a choir
- Low-voiced singing woman
- Type of sax or voice in a choir
- Singing range above tenor
- Saxophone that's smaller than a tenor
- One of the sax family
- Certain choral singer
- Common rock sax
- "Breathe In" band Palo___
- Popular sax
- L.A. rockers Palo___
- Type of flute or sax
- Singer
- Voice of ballot box regularly ignored
- Not last part for backing singer
- A list is dropped round to the singer
- Second of four parts (in singing)
- Most of all, to become a singer
- Discovery of orchestral torch song performer
- He's well up in music!
- Viola's voice
- Viola's love for a lieutenant
- A voice of phenomenal tone
- A figure to go with the voice
- Male voice
- Such a chorister featured in cathedral tour
- Composer has no limits for voice
- A number given to someone to sing
- Many a choirboy
- Voice from the loft
- Like some 60-Across
- Range of some saxes
- Singer from Scotland turning up
- Clef type
- Benny Carter's sax
- A cappella group member, maybe
- Vocal part often sung by mezzos
- Horn type
- Vocal range for both sexes
- Male ___ (countertenor)
- He is used to having high scores
- Singer gets letters from Walton
- A lot transposed for counter-tenor
- Register and get her off completely
- Highest adult male voice
- Voice raised in Scotland
- Counter-tenor or contralto
- Walton loses points as a singer
- In part of Le Pauvre Matelot Lanza turned counter-tenor
- Echoes note to singer
- One singing in royal toilet?
- Highest male voice: lowest female voice
- Singer in musical (Tommy)
- Voice coming from chemical toilet
- Singer - all things considered, get her off!
- Singer in musical, Tormé
- Singer in musical, touring
- Singer back in Scotland
- Singer in national tournament
- Voice trial - took part
- Singer for whom composer knows no limits
- A parody - 49 composed
- Falsetto male voice
- Amy Winehouse, vocally
- Deep tone
- Viola from Carshalton
- Ensemble singer
- A, on some vocal scores
- Singer of extra special tone?
- Key element of air for singer
- Voice that's lower than soprano
- Kind of clarinet
- Deepest female voice
- Adele's vocal range
- Voice from the choir loft
- Harmonizing voice
- One not often hitting the high note
- Cher's vocal range
- A cappella group member
- Guitar range
- Midlevel voice
- Range for some flutes
- Prefix with stratus
- Sax larger than a soprano
- Voice in a loft
- A voice of regal tone
- Potential aria singer
- Middle range singing voice
- Deep female voice
- Orfeo in Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice," e.g.
- High in the Andes?
- Part of some vocal quartets
- Viola gets upset a lot
- Boy's choir range
- Higher than tenor
- Word on Spanish stop signs
- Nina Simone, e.g.
- Chorale participant
- Cher, voice-wise
- Singer up in Scotland
- Voice lower than mezzo
- Range of many female vocalists
- Lead-in to stratus or cumulus
- Not so high-pitched
- Cher, vocally
- High, in instrument names
- Soprano colleague
- Cher or Adele, musically
- Seor's "Stop!"
- Rare solo voice in opera
- Women's choir voice
- Cloud name prefix
- Sweet Adelines member
- Viola's voice?
- 47-Down, for one
- Dolly in "Hello, Dolly!," e.g.
- Range for some saxes
- Countertenor, usually
- 52-Down, vocally
- The "A" in SATB
- Voice above 6-Down
- One singing in musical tones?
- Women's singing voice
- Kind of horn pitched in E flat
- As a singer, "14" got me a break
- Toni Braxton's vocal range
- Range of Anita Baker or Tina Turner
- Toni Braxton or Mahalia Jackson, e.g.
- Viola music clef, often
- Voice range above tenor
- Cher, for example
- Type of clarinet or sax
- Soprano's co-star?
- Range between tenor and soprano
- Palo ___ (32 Across hub)
- Anita Baker or Toni Braxton, e.g.
- Woman's choir voice
- Cher, e.g., voicewise
- One whose range goes from about F3 to F5, musically
- Vocal quartet member, maybe
- Spanish opposite of bajo
- Choir voice type
- Adele or Cher, vocally
- Oleta Adams vocal range
- Voice below mezzo-soprano
- Viola's singing voice
- Tina Turner, voicewise
- Range above 41-Down
- Soprano's female colleague
- Chaka Khan, vocally
- Range for a viola
- Variety of saxophone
- Lead-in to sax
- Gloria Estefan's vocal range
- Sax or flute type
- Type of singer you need in a trio
- With 16-Across, staff symbol for viola music
- Voice between tenor and soprano
- Alphabetically first vocal range
- Chaka Khan's vocal range
- Second-highest of the four voices
- See 19-Across
- Voice in a large singing group
- Cher or Sade, voicewise
- One joining in the chorus
- Cher, but not Sonny
- Cher, voicewise
- Judy Garland, voicewise
- Tracy Chapman's voice type
- Vocal range above tenor
- Vocal range for Adele and Cher
- Vocal range below soprano
- Soprano's choirmate
- Soprano, ___, tenor, bass
- Patsy Cline, for one
- Voice part between soprano and tenor
- Type of singer
- Bonnie Raitt's vocal range
- Kind of saxophone or voice
- A cappella part, say
- Mid-range?
- Part in the middle?
- Quartet singer
- 13-Across, voicewise
- Celia Cruz's vocal range
- Sax type played by Paquito D'Rivera
- Singer below a soprano
- See 38-Down
- Tall: Sp.
- Part in four-part harmony
- Range for some saxophones
- Vocal range name meaning "high"
- See 24-Down
- Like violas and English horns
- One of the voices on the choir
- Range hidden in "vocal tone"
- The "A" of S.A.T.B.
- SSA choral arrangement part
- Tracy Chapman's vocal range
- Middle harmony chorus part
- Gladys Knight's vocal range
- Palo ___ (Bay Area city)
- Joy Oladokun's vocal range
- Gladys Knight, for one
- Voice range higher than tenor
- Type of 32-Down
- Tina Turner's vocal range
- Tina Turner or Stevie Nicks, e.g.
- Vocal part that often provides harmony to a soprano melody
- Silicon Valley city Palo ___
- Low woman's voice
- Vocal range in a choir
- Bajo's opposite
- Adele or Tracy Chapman's vocal range
- El ___: second-largest city in Bolivia
- Type of sax or singer
- The "A" of the choir shorthand SATB
- High male singing voice
- Voice under a soprano
- High, in Italian
- Midrange performer
- Vocal range for Amy Winehouse
- Jensen McRae's vocal range
- Member of a choir
- Vocal range for Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner
- Harmonizer, often
- Amy Winehouse, e.g.
- Bajo opposite
- Many a choirgirl
- See 58-Down
- Kind of clef used for the viola
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