Pittsburgh puzzler
ACROSS
1 Org. with a lot of baggage?
4 Place for a sail
8 First light
12 Woman in a “Paint Your Wagon” song 17 Indy 500 legend Mario
19 Jai __
20 Of utmost importance
21/22 The first thing ever recorded and played on a 96-Across (by 42/74-Across) 24 Fencing blade
25 West of Hollywood
27 Sch. with a Providence campus 28 Felipe, Matty or Jesus of baseball 29 What planets orbit
30 Brow beads
33 “___ boy or …?”
35 Cartesian conclusion
36 Puzzle subject’s boyhood home, where he became a telegraph operator at age 15
40 Bad suggestion
41 Blown up, as a neg.
42 With 74-Across, he was born on Feb. 11, 1847
45 Slowly, in music
48 Puccini premiere of 1900
52 Basic human need
53 Local govt. unit
55 His modernization of this machine made his first fortune
57 “Cut it out!”
59 Chance, to the bard
61 Corn unit
62 Highland attire
63 The puzzle subject’s early version of a motion picture machine
68 Favorable vote
70 Yale student
71 Squirrel away
72 Brilliant debut
74 See 42-Across
76 Skeleton starter?
78 Manet et Monet, par exemple 80 Nickname bestowed on him (using his laboratory location) for 96-Across
86 Web or nanny follower
87 Drug cops
88 Suez Canal locale
89 Newsman Melber or Shapiro
91 Tennis great Arthur
93 Empire St. newspaper
94 Abbr. in some Black church names 95 Related (to)
96 The 1877 invention that made him famous
99 Quality (near-total) that he felt helped him focus
103 Cut even shorter, as a green
104 Pigmented eye part
105 Facing
106 Singer with albums “19,” “21” and “25”
107 Novice, in gamer lingo
108 Part of the neck
109 Quibble
DOWN
1 Makes less unruly
2 Buy eagerly
3 Glandular prefix
4 Unimpressed response
5 Words before loss or standstill
6 Part of CST: abbr.
7 Coffee liqueur
8 Broad valley
9 Mahershala of “Moonlight”
10 ‘60s dance craze
11 __ acid (caustic chemical)
12 Ill-fated fruit eater
13 Reader’s Digest co-founder __ Wallace 14 Home to Roma and Milano
15 Like Troy Polamalu, by heritage 16 Photo collection
18 Bread for a Reuben
23 Thin and graceful
26 Fighting (with)
30 Ermine, in summer
31 Annual list of notables
32 It’s north of Afr.
33 Adult insect
34 “__ a stinker?”: Bugs Bunny line 37 Meas. of engine speed
38 “Cool!”
39 Austrian pistol
42 To-do items
43 Bandleader’s “Go!”
44 Maine college town
46 Swelling soother
47 “Sounds good”
49 They may be blue or cloudy
50 String quartet member 51 “Our Father which __ …”
54 Make no play
56 Cradle site, in song Rob 58 Rosie of “Do the Right Thing” Lindsay 60 Angel dust, briefly
64 Either Bush
65 Five Norse kings
66 Eggplant __ (certain entree, informally)
67 Value highly
69 Quite skilled
73 Would be determined by
75 Patience-virtue connectors
77 Chimp kin
79 Devious
80 Laundered
81 “Hi, honey” follower
82 Dress rehearsal
83 From C to shining C?
84 Earn hand over fist
85 Figure skating champion Yamaguchi
86 “It’s a Wonderful Life” director
90 Map within a map
92 Carbon compound
94 Obsessed mariner
95 Reply to a ques.
97 Be in debt
98 Church seating
100 Eco-friendly org.
101 Smartphone download
102 David, to Goliath
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