Today’s Saturday Stumper

Today’s Newsday  Saturday Stumper, by Matthew Sewell, has something of a summery, rural flavor: 21-D, twelve letters, “Corn mazes, hayrides, etc.” And 40-D, seven letters, “Hit shows at county fairs.” Neither of which helped me much. What did help: 2-D, nine letters, “Reunion rendition.” Before hitting on that answer, I was, as they say in crosswords, ATSEA.

Some clue-and-answer pairs of note:

4-D, twelve letters, “Metaphoric height.” Wow.

5-D, five letters, “Zebra crossing?” The rules of the road don’t help here.

11-D, five letters, “57-Across forerunner.” This answer brings back memories. (57-A, five letters, “Urban legend spreader.”)

14-A, four letters, “Rosetta Stone characters.” Pretty fiendish.

19-A, fifteen letters, “Pedestrian.” I’m not sure the clue is true to the answer, but I like the answer.

27-D, four letters, “Quick game.” Clever, but also yikes!

30-A, eleven letters, “Taking for a ride.” I wrote in the answer with nothing more than the last five letters without feeling that I was being taken for a ride.

39-A, eleven letters, “Sign of falling down on the job?” Heh.

46-D, five letters, “What ’our opposition ... don’t know how to handle’”: John Lennon. And it’s what we need now, though it’s not enough.

50-A, fifteen letters, “Model power source.” Crazy good!

50-D, four letters, “Name on the cover of Primary School Geography (1894).” My start, and I’m glad it was here.

61-A, four letters, “Banners of the Charleston era.” Early on I read this clue and thought I will never finish this puzzle.

My favorite in this puzzle: 48-A, six letters, “Real-time loggers.” Because my mom.

No spoilers; the answers are in the comments.