Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh puzzler

- RUTH ANN DAILEY Puzzle solution published here next Sunday. Direct comments to ruthanndai­ley@hotmail.com

ACROSS

1 Video game brand since 1972 6 Ending for sub- or ex9 Inquire

12 Prevent, legally

17 Capital of the First State 18 Legendary Rhine siren 20 Public spat

21 This, the world’s first, opened in Camden, New Jersey, on June 6, 1933

24 Deck on a cruise ship 25 Tourist’s aid

26 “___ far, far better thing I do…” 27 Half of a salon job

28 Meadow

30 __-mo replay

31 __-Magnon man

33 Negative prefix 34 Minimum fee to enter 21-Across 39 With 64-Across, where 82-Across was working (his father’s store) when he patented his invention of 21-Across

41 Be on the same page 42 General at Gettysburg 43 Driver’s 180, briefly 44 Desert refuges

45 Warty critter 46 Shakespear­ean storm 48 Words before roll or tear 49 Fish-eating eagle

50 Feature shown on June 6, 1933, starring Pittsburgh-born Adolphe Menjou

52 Arthur of “Golden Girls” 55 Prohibit

56 Inner segments of Venn diagrams 57 Campus military grp.

58 Highway haulers

61 Tiny taste of tea, say

62 Org. overseeing airspace 63 Poet’s “below”

64 See 39-Across

66 Number of different state license plates recorded by employees at 21Across in its first summer of operation

68 “Come again?”

69 Drivel

70 Seoul’s peninsula: abbr. 71 “I knew it all along!” 72 Prepare to print 74 Mathematic­al comparison 76 Hullabaloo

78 One way to play it

82 Inventor (born 1900) of the 21-Across

86 Online sales

87 FBI file

88 Spine-tingling

89 Pick up on

90 Hearty laugh

91 Summer, in Saint-Tropez 92 Embellish DOWN 1 Not incl.

2 Actress Spelling

3 Enthusiast­ic

4 Attempted a coup

5 Wrath

6 Arm bone

7 Easy win

8 “My man!”

9 Justice who replaced O’Connor

10 “__ told you so!”

11 Like a velvet Elvis 12 Pittsburgh-to-Philly dir.

13 Con game

14 What some vaccinatio­ns prevent 15 Lacking variety

16 Political commentato­r Dana and kin 19 Very bad things

22 Apple on a desktop

23 WWI spy Mata __

29 Hole in a needle

30 Rises to the challenge 32 Atmospheri­c layer

34 Destiny

35 Classic lab assistant name 36 Drescher of “The Nanny”

37 Ft. above sea level

38 Archenemy

39 It may be donned for sailing or surfing 40 Top bond rating

43 Employs as

46 Malleable metal 47 Recede

48 Surgery ctrs.

50 Had arisen

51 Rat-__

52 Tusked mammal

53 Cigar ending?

54 Need an ice bag, say

55 Auction action

57 Went over yet again

58 Areas of influence, e.g. 59 Learned

60 Tribesman in a Cooper title 61 Mid-March honoree, colloquial­ly 63 Unknown degree

65 “The Alienist” author Caleb 66 Hoodwinks

67 Yin’s counterpar­t

70 Sales booth

73 Not that

75 Pronoun before “shalt not” 76 Paleo or Atkins

77 Concerning

79 Sleek design prefix

80 County event

81 Where Adam met Eve 83 Tankard filler

84 Piece of fiction

85 Salty expanse

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