Pittsburgh puzzler
ACROSS 1 Fish-and-chips fish 4 Attaches with a rope 11 Head out
16 First Republican prez 17 Select for a jury 18 Ohio rubber city 19 Spanish Florida settlement where the world’s first St. Patrick’s Day parade was held, in 1601 21 Be deserving of
22 Former Montana mining town 23 Green film on metals, e.g. 25 Rink surface
26 Tennis great Arthur
27 It is dyed green each year (since 1962)
30 Howard of “WKRP in Cincinnati” 32 Songstress Lena
33 Comics fight scene word 34 Slob’s creation
36 Baldwin of “30 Rock”
39 He once made St. Patrick’s Day a holiday for his troops
44 Necessitate 46 Noxious emissions 47 Boot camp V.I.P. 49 Quite bizarre 50 Old-style revolutionary 52 An American, but not Irish, St. Pat’s tradition
54 Crash-investigating agcy. 55 “Help __ the way!”
57 D.C. ballplayer
58 “It __ hit me yet…” 60 Teaching privately
65 City with an annual parade since 1771
69 Basie’s “__ ‘Clock Jump” 70 “The Last Jedi” villain Kylo 71 Amicus __ (friend of the court) 72 Where __ (happening place) 73 Rags-to-riches writer Horatio 75 Where Irish soldiers in the British Army formed the Thirteen Colonies’ first St. Pat’s parade, in 1766
78 The squiggle in piñata 79 Womb-related
80 __ Paulo, Brazil
81 Played around (with)
82 Cars discontinued after 1931 83 Houston sch.
DOWN
1 “Come with me to the __” (”Algiers” catch-phrase)
2 Slow to catch on
3 Opposite of births
4 Buster Brown’s dog
5 Outback bird 6 Festoons with Charmin, briefly 7 Millinery accessory
8 Pioneering computer of the 1940s 9 Words before cop or wreck 10 Horse-drawn winter rides 11 Hollywood’s Hedy
12 Barely make, with “out”
13 Make a fashionable entrance?
14 Give utterance to
15 Keypad key
20 Beehive State tribe
24 Rope loop
27 “Let’s move it!”
28 Big Harleys, in slang
29 Where “three men” of rhyme are 31 Protestant denom.
34 Lamebrain
35 MIT grad, often
37 The Emerald Isle
38 First symbol on a music staff
39 Aptly named NYC sports talk radio station
40 Close relative
41 In an impressive way
42 Like some tea or medicine
43 Hard or soft menu item 45 Silently acknowledge 48 Listless feeling
51 Vishnu worshipper
53 “I could __ horse!” 56 Chest bone
59 Like some vows
60 “And __ off!”
61 Campus mil. program 62 Refuse to budge 63 Comparable to a pin 64 Prankster’s cry
65 Engine maker __ & Whitney 66 Prefix meaning “sun”
67 Be dishonest with 68 Handled clumsily 72 Eisenhower and Turner 74 Suffix with “stamp” 76 Sunflower product 77 Genetic messenger inits.
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