June 2018 Crossword Answer Key

“Island Time”

Across

1. New horse

5. End of the lunch hour, typically

10. Happy or sad, say (abbr.)

13. Not susceptible (to)

19. Org. with a Statue of Liberty logo

20. Intro level

21. “___ whiz!”

22. Frank

23. Kids’ menu option

26. Earmarks

27. Before, in poems

28. In the manner of

29. Good surname for a meteorologist?

30. ___ Hill (San Francisco neighborhood)

31. SUV named for a mountain

33. Way to avoid the paparazzi

38. Common way to fail

42. Assistance

43. Anvil and hammer’s place

44. Opera opener

47. Have memorized

48. Lopsided victory

50. Older granddaughter of Abraham Simpson

51. Jim who hit number one in 1973 with both “Time in a Bottle” and “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”

53. Luminesce

55. Withstand

56. Preserves, in a way

57. Home to a baseball-bat museum

61. Picnic invader

62. Bills with Hamilton on them

63. Company department

64. On the way up

68. Seek damages from

69. Suffix for a computer file

70. Scarecrow stuffing

71. 911 responder

72. Neither here ___ there

73. Conflict

75. Get wool from

76. Winged god

77. Org. for docs

78. Capital that’s the largest city in Central Asia

82. Pence predecessor

85. Watched with considerable interest

86. ___ out (discover)

87. Ruin

88. Skater Rippon

89. Secluded valley

90. “Shall we?” response

92. Loch ___ (Urquhart Castle is on it)

93. 2013 Spike Jonze movie nominated for Best Picture

94. Fish at Sushi Taro

95. Bullets legend

99. Earnestly understood, as advice

103. Many French vowels

107. Small, amusingly

108. Skate-park tricks

110. Hard to explain

111. Holstein, e.g.

112. “Are we done here?”

115. Pirate-ship booty

118. Top crews

119. www.gwu.___

120. Tennessee senator Alexander

121. Olive or orange

122. Watched a friend’s Weimaraners, e.g.

123. Volleyball-match part

124. Wheel of Fortune actions

125. Largest island in the Chesapeake, which can also be found “floating” in the six theme entries

Down

1. Turned toward

2. Earth tone

3. Unfamiliar

4. Director Jean-___ Godard

5. Dupont Circle restaurant since 1987, named for the Washington Monument’s shape

6. Granny

7. One of the Baltic States (abbr.)

8. Port-of-call feature

9. Longtime Eagles quarterback Donovan ___

10. CIA member?

11. Bo of 10

12. I Ain’t Got Time to Bleed autobiographer Ventura

13. “Gimme that!”

14. Renaissance-fair address

15. Peach ___ (dessert served with ice cream)

16. One, to Pavarotti

17. Badminton barrier

18. Ending for Maryland or New York

24. Goddess of destruction

25. Bar-soap brand

32. Friends, in Florence

34. Pacific island nation

35. Young who sings “Old Man”

36. Dramatis personae

37. Historic times

39. Maserati mover

40. Tosses the dice

41. Being searched for by MPs, maybe

44. In ___ by itself (the best by a long shot)

45. Pastry portmanteau

46. Aggressive seller

48. Get more issues

49. Granola components

50. Potato-chip brand

52. Gloria who sings “Conga” and “Here We Are”

54. Neighborhood north of Foggy Bottom

55. Its capital is Minsk

56. Moves on to the next thing

58. Irritates

59. 14-___ gold

60. Con artist

65. How NFL games rarely end

66. ___ land

67. Funds that were applied for

70. The West Wing actor

71. Wave tops

74. Object

75. Second-largest island in Scotland

76. Buddy of The Beverly Hillbillies

79. First word on the phone

80. One of South Africa’s official languages

81. Vegas hotel where the Rat Pack hung out, with “the”

82. Thai currency

83. Concept

84. Not showing a play tonight

89. “Take a hike, pal!”

91. Letters may be returned to them

94. Mysterious puzzle

95. Maple ___ (ice-cream flavor)

96. ___ the Red

97. Girds (oneself), as for a shock

98. Russian car

100. Sewing-machine pioneer Howe

101. Gardener’s tubes

102. Slip through the fingers of

104. Find ___ for the common cold

105. Sophia of Grumpier Old Men

106. Very kind

109. Lose one’s cool

110. Algerian city where Camus set The Plague

112. Tourist-center freebie

113. Enjoyed Jaleo, for example

114. Up to now

116. “You’re oversharing”

117. Shares of a company (abbr.)