Sunday Crossword Puzzle

“ISLAND HOPPING” By JOHN GUZZETTA 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

69 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

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, 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 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