Pittsburgh puzzler

ACROSS

1 Simple earring

5 Little rascals

9 Entertain guests

13 Farming-related prefix

17 Inner Hebrides isle

18 Plumbing issue

19 Famous words to a backstabber 20 Really stink

21 Where 26-Across lived throughout high school, with her father

23 Opal-like gem

25 “On the Waterfront” director Kazan

26 Public figure born January 29, 1954 28 Pendulum’s path

30 Make room at a booth

32 Slimy creature

33 Jordanian’s neighbor

35 It’s all around you

36 Miss Piggy, self-referentially

38 Play the first card, say

41 With 53-Across, status achieved by 26Across in 2003

45 Post-op stop

46 Play __ (sit in with the band) 47 Fleur-de-__

48 Charged particle

49 Fibber’s admission

51 Wine choice

52 When doubled, a sweet treat

53 See 41-Across

56 “Nixon in China” role

57 Israel’s Meir

58 “Toy Story” dinosaur

59 26-Across’s role in this film (with “The”) garnered Oscar and Golden Globe nominations

63 That guy’s

64 Not quite right

67 Gentle as __

68 Sundial number

69 Director Spike or Ang

70 Fashion mag since 1945

71 King, in Cordoba

72 Nickname for 26-Across

77 Italian wine region

79 Pester

80 Jab playfully

81 Map within a map

82 King Ahab’s father

84 Takes classes at

86 Dash or Butterworth, in stores

87 Chicago complex where 26-Across’s self-named show was recorded for most of its 25-year run 91 “How awful!” 93 “Man __!” 94 Where 26-Across spent most of her childhood

98 Japanese soup type

99 Nasdaq competitor

100 Chick ending

101 Unkind

102 1999 Ron Howard satire

103 Brown quickly 104 Blue-ish hue named for a duck 105 Polar explorer Richard

DOWN

1 Moral failure

2 Come __ standstill

3 Like some loans

4 Willy Wonka’s creator Roald 5 Hipbone-related

6 Tormé or Brooks

7 Big oafs

8 Doubting sort

9 Macho fellow

10 “But then again…,” in a text

11 Put away

12 North African country

13 Like Dickens’s Dodger

14 Monarch with rebellious colonists 15 Descartes who said, “I think, therefore I am”

16 “__-doke!”

22 Take a trip to

24 NBC weekend staple

27 Hockey venue

28 To the same extent

29 Employee’s reward

31 K.T. of country music

34 “Spring forward” letters

36 Bread or bucks

37 Prefix meaning “all”

39 Tennis serving whiz

40 “My man!”

42 Weakly hit fly ball

43 Witty Oscar

44 Middle of 1997?

50 Not strict 52 Backyard shindig

53 Pop by

54 Unwell

55 Large bay window

56 May honoree

57 “Peer Gynt” composer

59 Siena sweetheart

60 World Cup cheers

61 Settle, once and for all 62 Pigmented eye layer

63 Oscar winner Mirren or Hunt 64 Snowy-capped peak of song 65 Store handout, say

66 Amazing achievements

69 Summer cottage site

70 Dusk, poetically

73 Instances of utter agreement 74 __-Free contact lens brand 75 Former drive-through film developer 76 Baryshnikov’s nickname 78 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” style 83 Steal from

84 Venomous snake

85 Wooden rod

87 Word before run or stretch

88 Eager

89 Actor Diggs of “Private Practice” 90 Constellation bear

92 Anesthetized

95 Grassy field

96 Unit of corn

97 Wrap up