ALL OVER THE MAP
Simeon Seigel is an architect at the Turrett Collaborative in New York City. He uses his subway commute to ‘‘trainstorm’’ theme ideas — including this one, which has been in the works since 2018. He writes, ‘‘The best themes, to me, are the ones that hinge on breaking ‘rules’ that I hadn’t thought of as rules until they were broken.’’
ACROSS
1 Pear variety 5 Universal, as a
motor
9 Short hedge? 13 Turner on the radio 17 Farm machine
equipped with twine 18 More crafty
19 The right one is
usually slower 20 Eclipse
21 Title character for
Tyler Perry
22 Bright pink shade 24 Literary friend of Sam, Merry and Pippin
25 ‘‘____ With Marc
Maron’’ (podcast) 26 Like a stock quote? 28 Attraction in 69-Across that once froze over for 30 hours in 1848 30 Informally agree to 32 Stick in a cup 34 Buyer
35 Sudden arrival 37 Attraction in 69-Across that withstands dozens of lightning strikes a year, familiarly
39 Didn’t swipe right? 40 Mail insert: Abbr. 42 What prices can do 43 Turning on the
wterworks
46 Either end of
America?
47 ‘‘I goofed,’’ in slang 48 Fish fittingly found
in ‘‘anemone’’ 50 Music genre that emphasizes the offbeat
51 Stumbler or
bumbler
52 Name that sounds
like a letter
54 Actor Kutcher 60 General meeting
place
62 School subjects? 65 Steel boot feature 67 Occasion for
fireworks: Abbr.
68 Capital city founded by King Harald
69 Locale of this puzzle’s attractions (really, all eight of them!)
72 Spa service, in brief 76 Pro ____ (for now) 78 Bleep out 79 Unwrapped eagerly 81 Voicer of Olaf in
‘‘Frozen’’
85 Typical sock
hopper
87 British throne
room?
88 Not a good guy 89 Handled thing 90 Handling things 92 Curt reprimand to
a dog
94 Wood used to make chess pieces and pool cues 96 Scarfs (down) 98 Caribbean music
genre
101 Name of two ‘‘Groundhog Day’’ characters
103 Little rascals 104 Attraction in 69Across overseen by the Navajo Nation 107 ‘‘Life would be ____ if it weren’t funny’’: Stephen Hawking
109 French eatery 111 Noted name in
2005 news
113 Cause of a
driveway stain 116 Attraction in 69Across on the Extraterrestrial Highway
118 ‘‘Nature of a ____’’ (1991 Queen Latifah album) 120 Originally called 121 Children’s author
Eric
122 Biggest portion 124 A little crazy 126 Colonized, as bees
might
127 Directional
heading?
128 Skipjacks and
bluefins
129 Perfect places 130 Be on the decline? 131 Spanish for
‘‘weight’’
132 Former L.A. center 133 Clinic liquids
DOWN
1 Political party
founded in Syria 2 Attraction in 69-Across that’s part of America’s first national park 3 Picture
4 Attraction in 69Across that’s almost 2,000 feet deep 5 Often
6 Gives as a reference 7 Many a lib
8 Heady?
9 Owners of an
infamous cow 10 Citrus with a
portmanteau name 11 Person living in
London
12 Consider 13 Comedian Jimmy with a self-described ‘‘schnozzola’’ 14 ‘‘Shoulda listened
to me!’’
15 Confuse
16 One way to be cut 17 Some German rides 18 They’re very attached to their calves
20 Collection during
a church service 23 Prepare (oneself)
for a challenge 27 Debauchee 29 ‘‘Hail,’’ in old Rome 31 Have down 33 Special attention,
for short
36 ‘‘Sup’’
38 Steep
39 Improvises in a
jazz group
41 Jazz group, for
short
44 Distributor of 1933’s ‘‘King Kong’’ and ‘‘Little Women’’ 45 Nigerian staple
food
46 Nothing special
47 ‘‘Bulls get angry when they see the color red,’’ for one 49 Meditation aid 53 Small role for
Paul Rudd 55 Marble, e.g. 56 Word before fly 57 Wyoming’s ____
Range
58 Yellowish
pigment
59 ‘‘No,’’ in a certain
dialect
61 Default consequence, perhaps
63 ‘‘The lady ____ protest too much
. . . ’’
64 Brut-ish?
66 Touch gently 70 Division for
a tennis match 71 Persuaded 73 Attraction in 69Across designed to be a ‘‘city of the future’’
74 Academic figures 75 Fictional archaeologist with a whip, familiarly 77 Googled oneself,
e.g.
80 Attraction in 69-Across where crocodiles and alligators uniquely coexist
81 Quick boxing
move
82 Tic-tac-toe loser 83 Buffet style
84 Part of the spine 86 Diamond stat 91 Deliberated (on) 93 Subgenre prefix 95 Flake, so to speak 97 Came to
99 Supply for kindergarten drawers
100 Eponymous saint of ‘‘Alamo City’’
101 Some clerical
workers
102 Seller of over a billion Huggable Hangers on TV 103 It’s a trap! 105 Profitability
metric, for short 106 Sea eagles 108 Wine-menu
section
109 The two wives and 20 children of Johann Sebastian 110 Letter-shaped
beam
112 Yoga pose 114 Insurance company whose name contains a diphthong
115 ‘‘Ivories’’
117 Bomb
119 Where dinars
are spent
123 ‘‘Wait ... what?’’ 125 Work on something you love?