Pittsburgh puzzler
ACROSS
1 Candy chicks, or chicks’ noises
6 Drew in
13 Alphabet sequence symbolizing ease 16 Sunlit lobbies
17 Put back in good condition 18 Burnt-crisp connectors
19 After winning a six-game match against 48-Across in 1996, he agreed to a rematch that ended in his defeat, on May 11, 1997 — a first of its kind
21 Regret
22 Anna’s sister in “Frozen”
23 Addams family cousin
24 Housetop workers
26 Confucian “way”
28 Oil, at a trattoria
31 Annapolis inst.
32 Status 19-Across achieved at age 17
37 Low digit?
38 UPC-like product ID
39 Lofty standards
40 Hockey legend Bobby and kin
42 Instant, in product names
44 Share a friend’s Facebook photo, say 48 Name of 19-Across’s opponent in 1996-97 tournament
51 Title of the documentary on the 19/48Across contest
53 Brightly plumed songbird
54 Ill-gotten gains
56 Former Yankee slugger Martinez
57 Less distant
59 No longer stylish
62 Silent approval
63 What 48-Across was
68 Huey, Dewey and Louie, e.g.
69 Romanov ruler
70 The “p” of mpg
71 More pitiful
74 Literary homage
76 On the subject of
80 Alias letters
81 19-Across briefly ran against him in 2008 and now strategizes against him militarily
85 Running joke
86 Property recipient, legally
87 Love, in Lombardy
88 Be in the red
89 Microscopic medical device
90 VCR inserts
DOWN
1 Leaf in a book 2 List-ending abbr.
3 Slips up
4 PNC Park player
6 Part of QED
7 “Iliad” advisor
8 Recipe amt.
9 Call __ day
10 Become rusted
11 Suffix for switch
12 “Whip It” band
13 Not moving
14 Ludlum’s “The __ Identity”
15 “Et tu, Brute?” speaker
20 Minor mall business
25 Hard-to-please type
27 Biblical beast
29 Put down, as carpet
30 Rainbow color
32 Kitchen tool for fruit
33 “Ready or not, __ come!”
34 Wise mentor
35 Quaint schoolteacher
36 Sheltered, at sea
37 Type of list
41 One buying ad time
43 Conger catchers
45 Sheep-related
46 Tijuana title 47 Stepped (on)
49 Cheese couleur
50 Big jump
52 Elemental unit
55 Ocean predator
58 Prepare to change jobs, perhaps
60 Word before case or crust
61 Calendar col. heading
63 “We’re on!”
64 Former NBC anchor Tom
65 Desert illusion
66 Cry in a famous balcony scene
67 Psychological wound
72 Pavlov or Turgenev
73 Fitzgerald of song
75 Losing venture?
77 “That’s enough!”
78 Lose stamina
79 Tip jar bills
82 “Gloria in Excelsis __”
83 Having five sharps, musically
84 Butter portion
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