Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword

Island Hopping

Clues with a dash are intentionally blank.

ACROSS

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 6971 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 Fashion initials Hundreds, slangily Plane wing parts Driver’s lic. figure Lacking what it takes Mauna __ Blood prefix Check out a wreck, perhaps

112 115 Babysitters’ woes 119 Romcom, perhaps 121 Piton user

122 How titles may be written

Sludge Wonder Woman’s __ of Truth Chinese: Pref. From Denver to Topeka 96 98 102 104 105 107 108 110 123 124

125 126

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, country-style 20 Colombian city 21 26

30 32 34 35 36 38 39 41 42 45

47 49 51 Clear-minded “Single Ladies (Put __ on It)”: Beyoncé hit

Pair

Relish

ATV part Watches secretly Legal titles: Abbr. Actor Lew Some action figures Successful shot Vocal effect Subway line with a Yankee Stadium stop “Whoa!” Payoff “Laughing” Australian bird 52 54 55

57 59 61

62

64 65 67

68 “SNL” alum Kevin Paul Bunyan tool Chicago Museum of Science and Industry showpiece Bobby on the ice Has a loan from Windy City transp. org. Frito-lay product with a spokes-feline named Chester Put together, as film U.K. heads

__ A: Italian soccer league

“The Simpsons Theme” composer Danny 70 73 75

77 79 81 82 83 85

87 91

93 95

97 105-Down launch Slew

“... the worst thing you can __ nothing”: Teddy Roosevelt Clobber Attaché attachment African bovines Two-baggers: Abbr. High Timberlake’s former band Approve Commissioner’s Trophy org. Welding fuel “And So __”: Billy Joel song Riyadh residents xwordeditor@aol.com; ©2017 Tribune Media Services Inc. Answer Above 99 100 101 103 105 106 109 111

113

114 115 116 117 118 120 Kid-lit pig Elixirs

Like the best wisdom Paving stone 70-Down launcher Classic language Dinner, for one

It has a Double Stuf variety

The Beatles’ “__ Loser” Burrowing rodent Aetna offering Tic-tac-toe win Spanish light ER workers Young Skywalker’s nickname