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Pittsburgh puzzler

- RUTH ANN DAILEY Send comments or questions to ruthanndai­ley@hotmail.com

ACROSS

1 Word before toast or after peach 6 Roman moon goddess

10 Syst. with many hand gestures 13 Director Kazan

17 First-stringers

18 Name that’s a city in Oklahoma 19 Online merchants

21 Abu __

22 Major League team where 28-Across played for 20 years (the first 10 in a different city, mentioned in 85-Across)

24 Eye part with rods and cones

26 Skirt choice

27 QB’s protection

28 Superb athlete born February 4, 1934 32 Tennis unit

33 Baseball’s Felipe, Jesus, Matty or Moises

34 Many an MIT grad

35 OB, GYN or ENT, e.g.

37 Hay storage areas

39 Nickname of 28-Across

47 Lift up

50 Singer whose fans are called Claymates

51 Taiwanese laptop maker

52 Actress De Arma or Gasteyer 55 Employ

56 Went astray

57 Bisected

58 Total number of 69-Down achieved by 28-Across on April 8, 1974

62 Baseball’s “hot corner” base 63 Decorated anew

64 Suffix for Manhattan or meteor

65 Dr. of rap

66 Neighbor of Turkey

67 1985 Glenn Close title role that sounds like a skirt choice

68 Heep of fiction

70 Career record still held by 28-Across, set in his final season (played with 85across)

73 World War II riveter

77 Gentle pull

78 Warning that might prevent a click, briefly

81 Request from Oliver Twist

82 Dyeing vessel

85 Team for which 28-Across played the last two years of his career

91 Manhattan Project creation

93 Bedside light

94 Love affairs

95 Hometown of 28-Across

98 Bird feeder cakes

101 Sixth-graders, usually

102 Former pitcher Hershiser

103 Drum kit part

104 Eye ailment

105 Classical Japanese drama

106 Covering a broad range

107 “Hamlet” courtier who oversees a duel

DOWN

1 Irate

2 Biblical verb ending

3 Find out about

4 Record-holder surpassed by 28-Across on April 8, 1974

5 Cordial relations

6 Look to for support

7 Innate

8 Zero, in soccer

9 Second or sixth president

10 Insurance giant named for a volcano 11 Flight segment

12 Research setting

13 Airline with a name taken from Hosea 14 Some jeans

15 Greek goddess of peace

16 Selling point

20 Like some patches

23 Actress Vardalos or Long

25 Terre surrounded by mer

28 “2001” computer

29 “Xanadu” rock grp.

30 Gershwin or Glass

31 Norse god of war

36 Repetitive vocalizati­on

38 Ting or ping

40 Hitched

41 Stuck in the mud

42 __ out a living

43 Colorful Western evergreen

44 Didn’t just stand by

45 Not so old

46 Danish coin

48 Kinda sorta 49 Pointillis­m pioneer Georges

52 Up and about

53 India’s first prime minister 54 Bird-related

56 Actor Murphy or Redmayne 57 “Sad to say…”

59 Physicist Mach or Dadaist Max 60 Call from behind a counter 61 “Lord, is __?”

67 Nativity trio

68 Ripped apart, per Shakespear­e 69 What the career-record contest of 1974 was for

71 Handle clumsily

72 Tattoo fluid

74 Unlikely source of a silk purse 75 Outrage

76 Always, poetically

79 Hen or ewe

80 Internat’l. pugilists’ assn. 82 Improvises, in jazz

83 “Cancel the mission!”

84 Maguire of “Spider-Man” 86 Grassy South American plain 87 Kate of “Grey’s Anatomy” 88 GP’s grp.

89 Violinist’s stroke

90 Actress René of “Thor”

92 Tiny arachnid

96 Poetic dusk

97 D’backs, in box scores

99 Lead-in to pod or angle

100 Brief moment

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