Pittsburgh puzzler
“MONARCHY’S MARCH MADNESS”
ACROSS
1 Queued up 8 Seventh Greek letter 11 __-cone 14 Damage 17 Italian sausage or city 18 Gold, in bulk 20 Tribute in verse 21 American colonists’ epithet for five laws 31-Across passed beginning in March 1774 23 TV remote button 24 Take care of 25 Last Supper query 26 Clothing 28 Showed disapproval 31 British entity that voted for the Stamp Act in March 1765 33 Singapore setting 36 __-a-porter: ready-to-wear 38 Kurylenko or Korbut 39 Who signed the Stamp Act’s repeal in March 1766 44 Conclude by 48 First Lady McKinley 49 Boxing div. 50 Enunciate slowly 52 Prefix with graph or center 53 What a utility might announce 56 Put in stitches 57 Steep cliffs 60 British action of March 1770 63 Melodious 64 In the style of 65 Playing for time 67 Rap’s Kim or Wayne 68 Render harmless 71 Sailor’s assent 72 End to an academic address 73 Nuremberg trial defendant 76 Start to a famous March 1775 speech given in reaction to 21-Across and more 79 Love, in tennis 81 Van Gogh flower 82 Modernists, briefly 83 “____ (law)” passed in March 1765 and again as part of 21-Across, requiring colonies to provide housing for the British Army 89 Started the pot 91 Like volunteer work 92 Marsh plants 94 Polynesian Disney princess 98 Gigi : je :: Greta : __ 99 He was elected to the Continental Congress in March 1775 103 Wallach or Manning 104 Rapturous Ravel tone poem based on a dance 105 Oil used in paint 106 A Kennedy brother 107 DDE’s WWII command 108 Landscaper’s roll 109 Tough times
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1 Sacred Nile wading bird 2 Fourth little piggy’s share 3 Old, in Oberhausen 4 It totes party favors 5 Cool place to live? 6 Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo dir. 7 Musician’s gift 8 Flows away 9 Spring flower 10 Prince Valiant’s wife 11 [That’s no typo] 12 Manx cat trait 13 Performing live, say 14 “Argo” or “Fargo,” e.g. 15 Embellish 16 Lease again, in London 19 Villain’s hangout 22 __ and abettor 27 Fed chasing Capone 29 Like many summer shoes 30 Wears away 32 Cut of meat 33 Similar (to) 34 Off-itinerary jaunt 35 Later on 37 __ Fridays 40 Snatches 41 Draw into a trap 42 Thing on a list 43 Midwest tribe members 45 Backside in Bayeux 46 Add, as an attachment 47 “Deck the Halls” contraction 51 Voltaire or Emerson, e.g. 54 __ Speedwagon 55 East German secret police 58 Joshua’s partner in spy-dom 59 Knee injury site, briefly 61 Norse royal name 62 Yalta attendee 63 Franken and Gore 66 Dudes 69 Scary lab assistant 70 Year the iPod debuted 74 Pound of poetry 75 Assign a new name 77 Totally remove 78 Stand behind 80 Cardinal’s topper 83 “Shh!” 84 Cry of surrender 85 Garden pest 86 Destructive 2017 hurricane 87 Hollywood’s Patricia et al. 88 Painter’s plaster 90 Fix, as text 93 Provided party music 95 On the briny 96 Yuletide tune 97 Common conjuctions 100 Lacto-__ vegetarian 101 Progressive spokeswoman 102 Christmas tree option
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