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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 114Across 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 114Across

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 114Across 36 Kind of tape 37 38 $100 Underwriting? bill, slangily 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

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