Pittsburgh puzzler
ACROSS
1 Giraffe feature
5 Baseball’s Ty
9 Long, drawn-out story
13 Mattress choice
17 Great Plains tribe
18 Off-putting smell
19 Texter’s “Then again…”
20 Maritime “Hey!”
21 Its debut was on February 12, 1924, at a concert titled “An Experiment in Modern Music”
24 Cows, archaically
25 “Lord, __?” (biblical query)
26 It may be Black, Red or Dead 27 Decorative sleeve band
29 Play a part
30 Ltr. holder
32 Social standard
34 Go on __ (run wild)
37 Respectful address
39 Composer and pianist who performed (and improvised part of) the debut
43 Permit
45 Report card fig.
46 Coup __
47 Granny, to Günther
48 Caesar salad lettuce
51 Numbskulls
53 Iconic sound that opens 21-Across
58 Steak cuts
59 Rubber sealing rings
60 Barbecue flavoring
61 Biblical queen’s land
65 Pasta suffix
66 Spine-tingling
70 The concert was held to honor this person’s birth exactly 115 years earlier
74 Zesty flavor
75 Be of __: help
76 Digestive fluid
77 Sass
79 Even if, briefly
80 Andy Warhol’s genre
82 Catch red-handed
85 Hidden stockpile
87 It’s clicked on a desktop
89 21-Across is deemed to have perfectly captured this era and place (4 words)
93 Far from common
94 Best four-of-a-kind
95 Recover
96 Landed
97 They “go marching” in a children’s song
98 Emmy winner Sofer of “General Hospital”
99 Pale gray
100 Earns after taxes
DOWN
1 Neither’s partner
2 Principled
3 Situated near waves
4 French Foreign Legion hat
5 Sounding like lovebirds
6 Quirky
7 Clothing store department
8 Creamy baguette topper
9 Have a bawl
10 Like a fugitive
11 Food connoisseur
12 [purposeful cough]
13 “…and the Lord __ away”
14 What lightweight construction boards are made of
15 Charged particle
16 “Science Guy” Bill
22 Business address abbr.
23 Da __, Vietnam
28 The end of a love affair, per a Floyd Cramer hit song
29 Doctors’ org.
31 Eschewing both meat and dairy 33 Massive British ref. bk.
35 We-please connecting words 36 Genetic strands
38 Erin of “Happy Days”
40 Mayberry boy of classic TV
41 Wild talk
42 Employee’s wish
44 Place with sawdust, maybe
49 Nickname for any Mikhail
50 It can be hatched or boiled
52 Detail map, often
53 After-school groups
54 Researcher’s write-up
55 Nonclerical
56 “There __ ‘I’ in team!”
57 Special ability
58 Mrs., in Munich
62 Warm greeting
63 The last of St. Nick’s team, in rhyme 64 Feel poorly
67 Squalid abode
68 Get by force of will?
69 Sense of self
71 Makes amends (for)
72 “99 Luftballons” singer
73 With grace
78 Fox foot
81 Not closed
83 Turkish title of honor
84 Spell-offs
86 Blue ink hue
87 401(k) alternative
88 Has the wherewithal
90 When doubled, a Gabor sister 91 “Nope”
92 Gold units: abbr.