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Way Out West

New York Times, Sunday, May 15, 2022

Author:
Daniel Mauer
Editor:
Will Shortz
___ Jay Hawkins, rock pioneer who wrote "I Put a Spell on You"
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Daniel Mauer

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 78 Missing: {J} This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Mauer. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick.
Will Shortz notes:
Daniel Mauer is a software engineer in Massachusetts. He started solving crosswords with his father when he was growing up and began making them six years ago. Two favorite activities of ... read more
Daniel Mauer notes:
My wife Sandy and I drove Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica in the early aughts, and it was among the most memorable of our many road trips together. There are dozens of quirky, ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Aw, rats! A friend and I were just brainstorming crosswords based on famous routes. One of the most famous, ROUTE SIXTY-SIX, came up right away, but we couldn't figure out an execution ... read more
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© 2022, The New York Times5/15/22 ( No. 26,486 )
Across
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"Meet the ___" (baseball fight song) : METS
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Pertaining to any of five Italian popes : SISTINE
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Small rodent : GERBIL
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To be, in France : ETRE
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___ Jay Hawkins, rock pioneer who wrote "I Put a Spell on You" : SCREAMIN
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Hardly a team player? : SOLOIST
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Nickname for 114-Across coined by John Steinbeck : THEMOTHERROAD
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Large rodents : MARMOTS
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Corpse ___ No. 2 (morning-after cocktail) : REVIVER
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German surname part : VON
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One of the Guccis : PAOLO
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At the top : ELITE
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Skip or drop : OMIT
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Down-to-earth : FOLKSY
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Cool : HIP
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Opposite of a breeze : ORDEAL
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Instruction for some Thanksgiving cooking : BASTE
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"Downton Abbey" countess : CORA
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Colorful natural attraction along 114-Across : PAINTEDDESERT
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An awful state to live in : SQUALOR
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Twitch user, perhaps : STREAMER
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Spanish : -ando or -iendo :: English : ___ : ING
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Attempt to grasp, as a complicated situation : UNPACK
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Car-pooling inits. : HOV
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Cuisine that includes gochujang paste : KOREAN
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"Go ahead and ask" : OKSHOOT
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Pastis flavorer : ANISE
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Peridot, for one : GEM
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Smart, say : HURT
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Bad stat for a QB: Abbr. : INT
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Left : WENT
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Tall, curved attraction along 114-Across : GATEWAYARCH
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Gear for gondoliers : OARS
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Trafficker trackers, for short : DEA
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Legend : ICON
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Animal in the genus Bos : YAK
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Following along : INTOW
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Roux ingredient? : SILENTX
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B3, nutritionally : NIACIN
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Beverage with a "New England" variety : IPA
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Gone to press? : PUSHED
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Booked it : RAN
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Phrase one might yell at the screen during a horror film : DONTDOIT
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What roots are, to powers : INVERSE
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Graffitied artistic attraction along 114-Across : CADILLACRANCH
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Summers in la cité : ETES
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___ Austin, Biden's secretary of defense : LLOYD
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Bugs : EATSAT
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Jazz bassist Carter, who has appeared on more than 2,200 recordings : RON
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Being treated, in a way : ONMEDS
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A whole can of worms? : BAIT
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Mamas' mamas : NANAS
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Bug : PEEVE
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Bad review : PAN
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Component of lacquer thinner : ACETONE
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More far out : CRAZIER
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Theme of this puzzle, which winds its way nearly 2,500 miles through all the shaded squares herein : ROUTESIXTYSIX
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Wishy-washy response : DEPENDS
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Captivate : ENTHRALL
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The Panthers of the N.C.A.A., familiarly : PITT
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Art in the Television Hall of Fame : CARNEY
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Dislikes and then some : DETESTS
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Things sometimes named after presidents : ERAS
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One of 50,460 in the Chunnel : METRE
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Actress Barrymore, great-aunt of Drew : ETHEL
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Famed fountain of Rome : TREVI
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Half step, in music : SEMITONE
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Character seen on a keyboard : SCHROEDER
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Bile : IRE
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Obsequious : SERVILE
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Sun deck? : TAROT
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"That's my cue!" : IMON
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Actress Long : NIA
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Component of a bridge truss : ENDPOST
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Positive results of some strikes : GOALS
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TV 6-year-old who attends Little Dipper School : ELROY
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Lead-in to "com" : ROM
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Bit of writing on Twitter or Tinder : BIO
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Natural conclusion? : IST
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Some mil. officers : LTS
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Abbr. on many streets in Quebec : STE
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"Holy ___!" : SMOKES
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Pass : OVERTAKE
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Not mainstream, for short : ALT
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Sierra ___ : MADRE
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1990s film with a famous wood chipper scene : FARGO
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Word with a wave in Oaxaca : HOLA
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Classic Camaro : IROC
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Grant ___, northeast terminus of 114-Across : PARK
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Kind of tape : DEMO
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$100 bill, slangily : BEN
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Underwriting? : CAPTION
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"What malarkey!" : PSHAW
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Paid penance : ATONED
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Site of a U.C. in the O.C. : IRVINE
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Muscle-bone connector : SINEW
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Verb in Poe's "The Raven" : QUOTH
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Trece menos doce : UNO
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Many a Hollywood worker : AGENT
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Brownish-yellow hue : KHAKI
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Big ___ : SUR
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Monogram in the 2016 presidential election : HRC
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Puts away : STASHES
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Suffragist and abolitionist Abby ___ Alcott : MAY
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Georgia, e.g. : NATION
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One of two circling the earth : TROPIC
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Decorates deceptively : GILDS
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High part of a deck : ACE
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Bon ___ (fashionable world) : TON
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One-named New Age musician : YANNI
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Mower's trail : SWATH
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Means of electronic communication with restricted access : INTRANET
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Ending with cash or front : IER
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Self images? : XRAYS
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Stevenson of 1950s politics : ADLAI
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They may be ridden to victory : COATTAILS
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Some co. name endings : INCS
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Santa Monica ___, southwest terminus of 114-Across : PIER
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Golden rule preposition : UNTO
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Speed skater Kramer with nine Olympic medals : SVEN
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Stir in : ADD
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String or integer, in programming : DATATYPE
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Brand with a bull in its logo : ELMERS
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Critical warning : CODERED
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Some scores in horseshoes : LEANERS
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"My Name Is Asher ___" : LEV
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Offer one's two cents : OPINE
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Deprived : NEEDY
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You usually do this lying down by yourself : BATHE
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Naval "Negative" : NOSIR
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Singer O'Day : ANITA
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Bad messages to send to the wrong person : SEXTS
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Tap-in, e.g. : PUTT
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140, in old Rome : CXL
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Covid Data Tracker org. : CDC
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New Deal power agcy. : REA
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Fools are often seen at its start: Abbr. : APR
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Peaceful, informally : ZEN
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Partner of only : ONE
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Posed for a portrait : SAT

Answer summary: 6 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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