Pacific Puzzle

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Across 1. With Hammerstein, he created the musical South Pacific. 4. Angling to find some food. 7. Go down. Vicar and strangely, you’ll see a mask, club or turtle. 9. Ratline confused with communal toilet. 10. The Sportsman’s Beer, Samoan’s Very Own Beer and It’s The Real

Thing! 11. Misguidedly, the mongoose was moved to Fiji to make a meal of this. 13. Groans about wraparound. 15. North-west Pacific dwellers. 16. Foreigner oddly found in Lae. 17. Skills ... or ships? 19. Crazy red cat searched his family tree to find ancestors.

22. Guam’s only indigenous mammal, considered a tasty treat by Chamorros. 24. FSM’s Lower Mortlock atoll “chuuked” as far east as possible. 25. It is an to stand upright in a Kiribati maeaba, or to take a photograph of an elderly person in yap. 26. I train lad to strangely take on ways of his ancestors. 27. Places of worship in Fiji. 28. Tuna treat could hardly be described as a raw deal.

Down 1. Lotteries? No, think of Singapore, Nadi and Suva 2. Confused? Ire soon will build over disappearing land 3. Played in more than 140 countries, you can watch this from February to November in Fiji 4. Fiji’s set for change in growing industry’s venue 5. Ocean wanderers 6. For drinks and shading yourself from the Pacific sun 7. Papeete’s meaning sounds like it could be used to carry liquid (6,6) 8. Honiara is a capital place on this Solomon island 12. Little eastern neighbour of Vanuatu’s Tanna Island 14. Island fuel 15. Small island on west coast of Pohnpei sounds like a social insect 17. Chemical element found in coral and milk 18. I-Kiribati name for Gilbert Islands 20. Purifies sugar ... or teaches how to use subtlety in speech 21. Red kite strangely flies over major waterways on Fiji’s Vanua Levu 22. Plaits, as in palm fronds or hair 23. Six not around when poisonous substances emerge

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ACROSS: 1. (Richard) Rodgers 4, Fishing 7. Woodcarving 9. Latrine 10.

Slogans 11. Rat 13. Sarong 15. Asians 16. Alien 17. Grafts 19. Traced 22. Bat 24. Lukunor 25. Offence 26. Traditional 27. Mosques 28. Sashimi DOWN: 1. Raffles 2. Erosion 3. Soccer 4. Forest 5. Sailors 6. Glasses 7. Water Basket 8. Guadalcanal 12. Aniwa 14.

Gas 15. Ant 17. Calcium 18. Tungam 20.

Refines 21. Dreketi 22. Braids 23.

Toxins