Pittsburgh puzzler
ACROSS
1 Fake IRS call, e.g. 5 Rum-flavored cakes 10 Hard worker
16 British “Bye!” 17 “Fighting” college team 18 Incomplete
19 With 24-Across, poem first published on July 4, 1895
21 Intense rant
22 Latin apology opener
23 __ Pérignon 24 See 19-Across
26 Imposing entrance
28 Gore Vidal’s “__ Breckenridge” 29 Stud farm stud
30 “Oh, give me __…”
32 Big Band and Victorian, e.g. 35 “Game of Thrones” patriarch Stark 36 Where 50-Across wrote the first version of 19/24-Across
40 Set aside
41 Scandalous gossip
42 Custom-built, briefly
43 Playing card with a letter
44 Imam’s text
46 “Goosebumps” series author
50 Author of 19/24-Across
53 Recurring line from Pepys, with “and” 54 Short-tempered
55 Chance occurrence, quaintly
56 Giant bird of myth
57 Home buyer’s debt: abbr. 58 Extremely
59 Visionary metaphor in 19/24-Across inspired by an 1893 visit to the World’s Columbian Exposition
64 __-magnon 65 Mmes. in Mexico 66 Collective values 67 Mounted on 69 Slipper or sneaker 71 “Just a moment…” 75 Inspiration for 19/24-Across (and its original name)
78 Tax whiz, briefly 79 Golf expert, say 80 Has a passion for 81 Organist/composer whose hymn tune “Materna” was used for the final version of 19/24-Across
84 Wine flavor component 85 Rolls Royce rollers 86 Great Plains tribe 87 Ticks off
88 “Just like me” 89 Geeky type
DOWN
1 Passport mark
2 Small role for a big star 3 On __: going wild
4 Scratch, perhaps
5 Sporting a pair of shades?
6 Composer Khachaturian
7 Tiny unit of data
8 Hal who directed “Shampoo” and “Being There”
9 Most transparent
10 Ballet garment
11 “Right away, boss!”
12 __ Elba of “The Wire”
13 Taking it easy
14 Stands the test of time
15 Nearly fell
20 Montana neighbor
25 Senior advocacy grp.
27 Yarn
28 Highway divider
31 Museo del Prado site
33 Biceps jewelry
34 Doesn’t get involved
36 Chocolate bean
37 1980 running gold-medalist Steve 38 Jazz great Coleman
39 “__ creature was stirring…”
40 Fifth Avenue retailer 44 Skewered foods
45 Mine vehicle
46 Surgically remove
47 “With this ring __ wed”
48 Closes in on
49 Catch sight of
51 Jewish wedding dance
52 Simon of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 57 Highest point in the Calif. Cascades 58 Shop clamp
59 Craftsperson
60 Searching (for)
61 Postpaid encl.
62 “God willing!”
63 Like most music
64 Per __ (each)
68 Tubular pasta
70 Gives the go-ahead
72 Sudden rush
73 Fielding flub
74 Like secret messages
76 Recipe direction
77 Linking brainstem part
78 Signaled, on stage
82 3-D med. scan
83 Got the gold