Pittsburgh puzzler
Due to a production error with last week’s Pittsburgh Puzzler, we are rerunning the puzzle and clues here. You’ll find the solution grid on page A-17.
Oklahoma became the 46th state in the Union on November 16, 1907. The exclamation point is a nod to the 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical — their first collaboration.
ACROSS
1 Hairy Addams cousin
4 Switch position
7 Reply to a ques.
10 Without any markup
16 Grassland
18 Anteater’s slurp in the “B.C.” comic strip
19 On one’s way
20 Oklahoma nickname based on wouldbe settlers who showed up too early to file land claims
22 Tries to hear better, say
23 Also, in Alsace
24 Rival composer of Mozart
26 Cake finishers
27 Academic URL ending
29 What Oklahoma means in the Choctaw language
31 With 81-Across, the 20th-century nickname for Tulsa, Oklahoma’s second-largest city
35 Go as low as
38 Minor quarrel
39 “u r so funny”
40 Chow down
42 “Maybe even less!”
44 Law, in Lyon
45 Ironic name for a big guy’s business establishment
47 Belt setting
49 Greek H
50 Favored to win
52 Farmyard noises
54 Multivolume ref.
56 Translation of Oklahoma’s motto, “Labor omnia vincit”
60 Reproduce like salmon
62 Deaf as __
63 Cajun cooking style
66 UFO crew
67 “L’il” comic strip character
69 Signs of healing
72 Renewable-energy source
73 Baja California or 46-Down, por ejemplo
75 Capture
77 Pgh.-to-Philly dir.
78 Pastrami purveyor
79 Bank book entry
81 See 31-Across
84 Cartographical feature of northwest Oklahoma
86 Hearty holiday quaff
87 Kosher : Judaism :: __ : Islam
90 Compliant types
92 Others, to Pedro
96 Coincide partly 98 Geological formation that makes up most of Oklahoma
100 Disdainful glance
101 Boring routine
102 Stylishly graceful
103 “Brideshead Revisited”author Waugh
104 Drs. who deliver
105 Many a fed. holiday
106 Vegas opener?
DOWN
1 Res __ loquitur
2 Pants, briefly
3 Artists’ mecca near Santa Fe
4 Tater Tots brand
5 Fragrant tree
6 Own (up)
7 Bright-bloomed shrub
8 Keeping busy
9 Hard to climb
10 Hydrocarbon suffix
11 Relocation of Native Americans from southeastern states to the Oklahoma and Indian territories
12 Guiding idea
13 Yorkshire river
14 Mess up 007’s martini
15 Hamilton bills
17 Entomologist’s study
19 “Middlemarch” author
21 In a cutting manner
25 Put in new garden supports, say
28 Satellite connection
30 Petits __ (peas)
31 Capital on a fjord
32 Discontinued Apple gadget
33 Devastated, with “to”
34 Charged molecule 36 Kyra Sedgwick TV title role
37 Like granola
41 “Oh phooey!”
43 Tic-toe connector
45 Meteorologists’ designation for much of Oklahoma
46 State bordering Baja
48 Leb. neighbor
51 Boar’s pen pal
53 Mensa stats
55 Phillies’ div.
57 Bottle alternative
58 Drinks may be put on this
59 One at a multiplex
60 “Told ya!”
61 Veteran’s woe, for short
64 Quiet period
65 “National Velvet” author Bagnold
68 Cap’n’s mate
70 Et __
71 Volcanic debris
74 Clothing
76 Massage
78 GI ID
80 “Fingers crossed!”
82 Groups at sea
83 Like some scarves
85 Part of UNCF
87 Hydrant attachment
88 Tel __
89 Start of an article, in journalese
91 Bouquet unit
93 Omani money
94 Actress Paquin or Kendrick
95 Bygone jets
97 Objectivism founder Rand
99 Mahmoud Abbas’s grp.