Pittsburgh puzzler
ACROSS
1 Corp. staff shake-up
6 Winning blackjack hand
12 Worked a party, briefly
16 Befuddled
17 Prefix meaning “green”
18 “Othello” villain
19 Introduction of this currency on one side of a world capital incited 66-Across’s blockade
21 He’s “Famous” for his cookies 22 Kimono sash
23 Canyon edge
24 Cruise stopovers
26 Absurd pretense
30 Morocco’s capital
32 Totality
34 Country in which this puzzle’s capital city is located
36 Burning
38 Super Bowl of 2022
39 Giant bird of Arabian myth
40 It was initiated on June 26, 1948 (75 years ago this week) to get food and fuel to citizens behind an infamous blockade 42 Boston airport
45 Actress de Mateo of “The Sopranos” 48 RR stop
49 An announcement of solidarity made on June 26, 1963 (60 years ago this week and 15 years after the start of 40Across)
55 Extra NBA periods
56 Shaft of light
57 Split to get hitched?
58 The city blockade launched in June 1948 was the biggest early crisis in this conflict
62 Network acronym formed in 1928 64 Chem. or anat., e.g. 65 First-generation Japanese-American 66 Nation that initiated the blockade between its portion of a capital city and the sectors controlled by its former allies 71 Part of NCAA: abbr.
72 Merrily sung syllables
74 Sends home, in a way
75 Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
77 Fizzle out
79 Apt rhyme for “pet”
80 Ready to pick
81 He uttered 49-Across on town hall steps in the once-blockaded, then-divided capital city
87 Finished at the bakery
88 Not digital
89 Pacific birds?
90 Many college profs
91 Mythical goat-men
92 “Peachy keen!”
DOWN
1 “Far out!”
2 Summer, on the Seine
3 The Buckeyes’ sch.
4 Snappy comeback
5 Big talker
6 Essen exclamation 7 “Moonstruck” star
8 New York resting place for Mark Twain
9 Every single person included 10 Goof up
11 Finnish cell phone giant 12 Bygone telephone feature 13 Last Catholic king of England 14 Search your own name online 15 Uno + uno
20 Sweet fall beverage
25 Give a scare to
26 String section instruments 27 Utter chaos
28 Heave __ of relief
29 Wear away
31 Win __ nose
33 Ran into
35 Fast-food pork sandwich 37 Thrash (about)
41 Leb. neighbor
43 Dwelling place 44 Birdbrains 46 Pgh.-to-Boston direction 47 Ancient counters 50 Hush-hush fed. agcy. 51 Plant firmly
52 Polite decline
53 Florida theme park 54 Rider’s controls 58 Espionage agcy.
59 Bird with a powerful kick 60 Like a hockey stick 61 Pretoria’s land: abbr. 63 Martin, Harvey or Carrell 67 So yesterday
68 To no avail
69 Totally disrupts
70 “Ask me again later” 73 Indian princes
76 Roadside bombs, for short 78 Get an __ effort 80 Dangerous kind of tide 82 Words before tear or dare 83 Metric wts.
84 Early garden party? 85 Penna. neighbor
86 French fashion inits.