l.a crossword
“ISLAND HOPPING”
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
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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
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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
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71 Tach figure
72 Youth support group
74 Antique
76 Storage facility sometimes found underground
77 New Mexico’s __ Ski Valley 78 “What __”: “Ho-hum”
79 Scoop
80 Part of TNT
81 Show some teeth 82 Washington soccer team
84 Lesser clergy member
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88 Confirmed
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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
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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, country-style 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 IthasaDouble 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