The New York Times Crossword
Daniel Mauer is a software engineer in Massachusetts. He started solving crosswords with his father. Daniel and his wife, Sandy, enjoy road trips, an inspiration for this puzzle.
ACROSS
1 “Meet the ____’’ (baseball
fight song)
5 Pertaining to any of five
Italian popes
12 Small rodent
18 To be, in France
19 ____ Jay Hawkins, rock pioneer who wrote “I Put a Spell on You’’
20 Hardly a team player?
21 Nickname for 114-Across
coined by John Steinbeck
23 Large rodents
24 Corpse ____ (morningafter cocktail)
25 German surname part
26 One of the Guccis
28 At the top
29 Skip or drop
31 Down-to-earth
32 Cool
35 Opposite of a breeze
37 Instruction for some
Thanksgiving cooking
38 “Downton Abbey’’ countess
39 Colorful natural attraction
along 114-Across
43 An awful state to live in
46 Twitch user, perhaps
47 Spanish : -ando or -iendo ::
English : ____
48 Attempt to grasp, as a
complicated situation
49 Car-pooling inits.
50 Cuisine that includes
gochujang paste
52 “Go ahead and ask’’
56 Pastis flavorer
58 Peridot, for one
60 Smart, say
61 Bad stat for a QB: Abbr.
64 Left
65 Tall, curved attraction
along 114-Across
69 Gear for gondoliers
71 Trafficker trackers, for
short
72 Legend
73 Animal in the genus Bos
74 Following along
75 Roux ingredient?
78 B3, nutritionally
82 Beverage with a “New
England’’ variety
83 Gone to press?
86 Booked it
88 Phrase one might yell at the
screen during a horror film
90 What roots are, to powers
92 Graffitied artistic attraction
along 114-Across
94 Summers in la cité
95 ____ Austin, Biden’s
secretary of defense
97 Bugs
98 Jazz bassist Carter, who has appeared on more than 2,200 recordings
99 Being treated, in a way
101 A whole can of worms?
102 Mamas’ mamas
106 Bug
107 Bad review 108 Component of lacquer
thinner
110 More far out
114 Theme of this puzzle, which winds its way nearly 2,500 miles through all the shaded squares herein
117 Wishy-washy response
118 Captivate
119 The Panthers of the
N.C.A.A., familiarly
120 Art in the Television Hall of
Fame
121 Dislikes and then some
122 Things sometimes named
after presidents
DOWN
1 One of 50,460 in the
Chunnel
2 Actress Barrymore, greataunt of Drew
3 Famed fountain of Rome
4 Half step, in music
5 Character seen on a
keyboard
6 Bile
7 Obsequious
8 Sun deck?
9 “That’s my cue!’’
10 Actress Long
11 Component of a bridge
truss
12 Positive results of some
strikes
13 TV 6-year-old who attends
Little Dipper School
14 Lead-in to “com’’
15 Bit of writing on Twitter or
Tinder
16 Natural conclusion? 17 Some mil. officers
19 Abbr. on many streets in
Quebec
20 “Holy ____!’’
22 Pass
27 Not mainstream, for short
30 Sierra ____
31 1990s film with a famous
wood chipper scene
32 Word with a wave in
Oaxaca
33 Classic Camaro
34 Grant ____, northeast
terminus of 114-Across
36 Kind of tape
37 $100 bill, slangily
38 Underwriting?
39 “What malarkey!’’
40 Paid penance
41 Site of a U.C. in the O.C.
42 Muscle-bone connector
44 Verb in Poe’s “The Raven’’
45 Trece menos doce
51 Many a Hollywood worker
53 Brownish-yellow hue
54 Big ____
55 Monogram in the 2016
presidential election
57 Puts away
59 Suffragist and abolitionist
Abby ____ Alcott
62 Georgia, e.g.
63 One of two circling the
earth
65 Decorates deceptively
66 High part of a deck
67 Bon ____ (fashionable
world)
68 One-named New Age
musician 70 Mower’s trail
74 Means of electronic communication with restricted access
76 Ending with cash or front
77 Self images?
79 Stevenson of 1950s politics
80 They may be ridden to
victory
81 Some co. name endings
83 Santa Monica ____, southwest terminus of 114-Across
84 Golden rule preposition
85 Speedskater Kramer with
nine Olympic medals
87 Stir in
89 String or integer, in
programming
91 Brand with a bull in its logo
92 Critical warning
93 Some scores in horseshoes
96 “My Name Is Asher ____’’
99 Offer one’s two cents
100 Deprived
101 You usually do this lying
down by yourself
103 Naval “Negative’’
104 Singer O’Day
105 Bad messages to send to
the wrong person
107 Tap-in, e.g.
109 140, in old Rome
110 Covid Data Tracker org.
111 New Deal power agcy.
112 Fools are often seen at its
start: Abbr.
113 Peaceful, informally
115 Partner of only
116 Posed for a portrait