Pittsburgh puzzler
“A SOMBER CHRISTENING”
ACROSS
1 Spicy dip … or dance
6 Molten flow
10 “I wasn’t impressed”
13 FBI guys
17 Earlier
18 With 7-Down, way back when 19 Potential progeny
20 “Piece of cake!”
21 She was christened on March 1, 2008 23 Canned fruit brand
25 Organ parts with rods and cones 26 Motto of 21-Across
28 Granny, across “the pond” 29 Competition prize
30 Curved moldings
31 Eve’s second son
34 Spanish “that”
36 Dry-eyes solution
39 Change a price label
41 Garden coils
44 Helpful connections
45 Tailless simian
48 Steel from this site was used in the bow of 21-Across
52 Units with four qtrs.
53 Luau instrument, briefly
54 Like a dark room
55 Spud
56 Keep from falling, perhaps 58 Campaign pro
60 Microwaves
61Tea region of India
64 Categorizes
67 Bitter beer, briefly
69 Day commemorated with 21-Across and her motto
72 Bobs, weaves and shags
76 What whipping achieves in the kitchen
77 Where 21-Across was built
79 Minn. neighbor
80 The bard’s “before”
81 Take hold of
82 Go into
83 Italian bubbly
84 Volleyball barrier
85 __ buco
86 Owners’ papers
DOWN 1 Urge (on)
2 Brit’s backside
3 Shopper’s reference
4 Duke of Albany, to Lear
5 Hockey venue
6 Installs, as tile
7 See 18-Across
8 Sci-fi pioneer Jules
9 Requested
10 Earliest Ford auto
11 At any point
12 What 6 is, to this clue’s number 13 With 56-Down, governor who requested giving the name 21-Across to a new warship rather than, per regulation, to a submarine
14 Canine woe
15 Lauder of cosmetics
16 Russian refusals
22 Decrease
24 Nighttime astronomical event 27 Medieval worker
29 Frame of mind
31 Like a pretentious painter
32 Home Depot paint brand
33 Summers on the Seine
35 Carry with effort
37 Not be straight with
38 Corp. abbr. 40 Foodie
42 Dazed state 43 Directional suffix 45 “__ girl!”: “Way to go!” 46 Easter confection 47 Flubs
49 Onetime MGM rival 50 Brief swims
51 Jesus, notably
56 See 13-Down
57 Early Web forum 59 Pinocchio, at times 61 Yoga pose 62 Botanical beginnings 63 Dieter Jack of rhyme 65 One of the Fab Four 66 Stadium strata
68 In a heap 70 Demeanor
71 Yawn inducer 72 Vagrant
73 Blind __
74 Linear, for short 75 Lith. and Lat., once 78 Used to be