ALL OVER THE MAP
No. 0324
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 ‘‘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?