Pacific Puzzle
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Across
I. Birds and superb yachtsmen. 8. The Christ child who changes Pacific’s temperature. 9. Northern Mariana’s ‘top’ hot spot.
10. Extremely straight head of state.
11. Western Solomon Islands’
Answers
ACROSS: 3.Kiwis B. EI Nino 9.Uracas 10. Ruler ll.Gizo l2.Maug !3.Fruised 15. Fetch 17. Owner 20. Aviator 21. River 22,Abeam 23. Toddled 24. Snake 26.0cean 28. Rituals 3 I.Surf 33. Buoy 34. Drums 3S.Jet Ski 36. Turtle 37. Adams.
DOWN: I. Ellice 2.Hi10 3.Koror 4.Wallis and Futuna s.Surge 6.Palm 7.Tamure IS.Charter 14.Dorados 15. Fires l6.Tavua 18. Niece l9.Ramen 25. Nausea 27.At011s 29. India 30. Lists 32. Fish 33. Bark.
administrative centre. 12. Guam confused with this 9 Across neighbour. 13. Strange Sir Duce sailed the Pacific. 15. Bring the distance travelled by waves. l7.Holder, as of land. 20. Profession of Amelia Earhart, whose
plane disappeared en route from New Guinea to Howland Island on July 2, 1937. 21. Fiji’s Dreketi or the Solomon’s Mataniko. 22. Ma leftAbemama confused and ended up alongside the boat. 23. Staggered, perhaps as a result of drinking too much palm sap? 24. Solomon’s brown tree or Fiji’s bolo loa. 26. author Peggy Noonan on editing; “Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it’s fresh, we’re on the Of course it’s for sale, we’re not giving it away. Of course it’s here, otherwise the sign would be somewhere else. The final sign: FISH.” 28. 3 I.Do this on the Net or off Manu village in southeast Malaita. 33. Male mooring? 34. lali and Tahiti’s to‘ere. 35. Obnoxious watercraft. (3,3) 36. loggerhead or olive ridley. 37. Bounty’s ‘family’ man who survived rigours of Pitcairn Island.
Down
1. Early tag for islands of Tuvalu. 2. Man sounds like a cow? No, it’s a city of Hawaii. 3. Capital place in Palau. 4. Smallest French territory in the Pacific. (6,3,6) 5. Sounds like a swell ... suit material? 6. Tropical tree. 7. ‘hip’ dance.
I 3.Her cart was changed for boat hire.
14. Delicious dolphins.
15. Dismisses island heating arrangements. 16. Viti Levu town on royal road. 18. Initially Noumea is easily called expensive. It’s all relative.
19.T0p noodle.
25. Seasickness. 27. lost around coral islands. 29. of many Fijians. 30. way boat heels over. 32. Seafood.
33. Dog’s cry:“Tapa!”
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