THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
edited by will shortz: no 0522 way out west by daniel MAUER
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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