ALL OVER THE MAP
By SiMEON SEigEL / EDiTED By JOEL FAgLiANO
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 c ity 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 A ttraction in 69-Across 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 69-Across 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 Perfe ct 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 69-Across 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 69-Across designed to be a “city of the future” 74 Academic figures 75 Fictional archaeologist with a whip, familiarly 77 Googled oneself,
e.g.
80 Attrac tion 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
No. 0324
103 It’s a trap!
105 Profitability
metric, for short 106 Sea eagles
108 Wine-menu
section
109 The two w ives 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?
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