Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“ISLAND HOPPING” By JOHN GUZZETTA Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS
Clues with a dash are intentionally blank. 1 Pond organism 5 Traffic sound 9 Spin, for one 14 Niger neighbor 18 Slight
mitigation? 20 One dressed for dinner?
22 “I didn’t mean that”
23 Defense opponent, briefly 24 Preliminary negotiations
25 - 27 Bivouac structure 28 Sportage automaker 29 Olympic skater Ito
31 Mag. edition 33 Obliterate 37 Blow bubbles
into
40 Canberra school 41 Benjamin of “Private Practice” 43 Italian peaks 44 “Seriously?” 46 Teachers’ org. 48 Former Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale component
50 - 51 Fluorescent bulb element
52 - 53 Functions 55 Ring holders 56 Fish eggs 58 Toffee candy bar
60 Alloys, e.g. 61 Corner office execs
62 Word spoken con affetto 63 Fine-grained wood 64 Sleep it off 66 “Shame!” 67 “On the Good Ship Lollipop” performer
69 -
71 Tach figure 72 Youth support group 74 Antique 76 Storage facility sometimes found underground 77 New Mexico’s __ Ski Valley 78 “What __”: “Hohum”
79 Scoop
80 Part of TNT 81 Show some
teeth 82 Washington soccer team 84 Lesser clergy member
86 -
88 Confirmed
89 -
90 Balaam’s mount 91 Vade __:
handbook
92 Old Vatican bread
94 Port of __: Trinidad and Tobago’s capital 96 Fashion initials 98 Hundreds, slangily 102 Plane wing parts 104 Driver’s lic. figure 105 Lacking what it takes
107 Mauna __ 108 Blood prefix 110 Check out a wreck, perhaps 112 - 115 Babysitters’ woes
119 Romcom,
perhaps 121 Piton user 122 How titles may
be written 123 Sludge
124 Wonder Woman’s __ of Truth
125 Chinese: Pref. 126 From Denver to
Topeka
DOWN
1 Golfer Sorenstam 2 Canadian coin 3 Had success 4 Picked hairdo 5 Classic “Star Trek” order 6 China’s Zhou __ 7 Night school subj.
8 Manning in Nationwide ads 9 Amontillado holder
10 Base reply? 11 “__: Miami” 12 Final part of a
task
13 Art Deco artist 14 Watchword 15 PC space bar
neighbor 16 Bloke 17 Early civil rights activist __ B. Wells
19 Pro, countrystyle 20 Colombian city 21 Clear-minded 26 “Single Ladies (Put __ on It)”: Beyoncé hit 30 Pair
32 Relish
34 ATV part 35 Watches secretly 36 Legal titles: Abbr.
38 Actor Lew 39 Some action
figures 41 Successful shot 42 Vocal effect 45 Subway line with a Yankee Stadium stop 47 “Whoa!” 49 Payoff 51 “Laughing” Australian bird 52 “SNL” alum Kevin
54 Paul Bunyan tool 55 Chicago Museum of Science and Industry showpiece 57 Bobby on the
ice
59 Has a loan from 61 Windy City transp. org. 62 Frito-Lay product with a spokes-feline named Chester 64 Put together, as film
65 U.K. heads
67 __ A: Italian soccer league 68 “The Simpsons Theme” composer Danny 70 105-Down launch
73 Slew
75 “... the worst thing you can __ nothing”: Teddy Roosevelt 77 Clobber 79 Attaché attachment 81 African bovines 82 Two-baggers: Abbr.
83 High 85 Timberlake’s former band 87 Approve 91 Commissioner’s Trophy org. 93 Welding fuel 95 “And So __”: Billy Joel song 97 Riyadh residents 99 Kid-lit pig 100 Elixirs
101 Like the best wisdom 103 Paving stone 105 70-Down launcher 106 Classic language 109 Dinner, for one 111 It has a Double Stuf variety 113 The Beatles’ “__ Loser” 114 Burrowing rodent
115 Aetna offering 116 Tic-tac-toe win 117 Spanish light 118 ER workers 120 Young Skywalker’s nickname