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

waterworks

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 61 63 Default ‘‘The ‘‘No,’’ dialect perhaps lady in consequence, a certain ____ 64 Brut-ish? protest . . . ’’ too much

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?