South Florida Sun-Sentinel Palm Beach (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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.
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 : ____
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,
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