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