New York Times Crossword No. 0529
Daniel Mauer is a software engineer in Massachusetts. He started solving crosswords with his father when he was growing up and began making them six years ago. Two favorite activities of Daniel and his wife, Sandy, are solving the Times crossword, which they do first thing every morning, and taking road trips. The latter was the inspiration for this puzzle. — W.S. 48 Attempt to grasp, 101 A whole can of as a complicated worms? situation 102 Mamas’ mamas 49 Car-pooling inits. 106 Bug 50 Cuisine that includes 107 Bad review gochujang paste
108 Component of
52 ‘‘Go ahead and ask’’ lacquer thinner 56 Pastis flavorer 110 More far out 58 Peridot, for one 114 Theme of this puzzle,
60 Smart, say which winds its
61 Bad stat for a QB: way nearly 2,500
Abbr. miles through all
64 Left the shaded squares
65 Tall, curved attraction herein
along 114-Across 117 Wishy-washy
69 Gear for gondoliers response 71 Trafficker trackers, 118 Captivate
for short 119 The Panthers of the
72 Legend N.C.A.A., familiarly 73 Animal in the genus 120 Art in the Television
Bos Hall of Fame 74 Following along 121 Dislikes and then
75 Roux ingredient? some 78 B3, nutritionally 122 Things sometimes
named after
82 Beverage with a presidents ‘‘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
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 ____ (morning-after 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 : ____
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1 One of 50,460 in the
Chunnel
2 Actress Barrymore,
great-aunt 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