THE PREMIER

SPLITTING SIMPLE SUBSTANCES

ACROSS

1 Auto-theft deterrent 9 Nickname for

Ireland, with “the” 16 “— to say?” 20 Formal written

defense 21 Informer 22 Lend a hand 23 1941 hit for Billie

Holiday 25 “Would — to

you?” 26 “Frozen” snow

queen 27 Athenian H 28 Of volcanic activ

ity 30 Subpar grade 31 Kind of shipping with smallish freight 37 O’Hara’s Butler 39 Kind of sword 40 Give rise to 41 One watching

unobtrusively 46 See 87-Across 49 Fly jets, say 50 Lend a hand 51 Telly initials 54 Bear, in Tijuana 55 Countries 56 Home pest 57 Xeroxing supply 62 Common B.A.

major 63 Orly jet, once 64 Soprano Gluck 65 California’s region 66 Legendary king of

Camelot 70 Little-by-little 73 Morales of movies 74 High trains 75 Stein quaff 78 Pilot’s direction

detector 80 Nada 81 Made even 83 Gp. of G.P.’s 84 One-wd. defini

tion, essentially 85 2005 Best

Director Lee 86 Plod along 87 With 46-Across,

pancake pour-on 90 Like a technology

in development 95 Singer Clark or

Gibbs 98 Bowl game org. 99 Believer in a “God

of reason” 100 Ayatollah Khomeini led it in 1979 105 “Give — try!” 108 Forbearance 109 Yank enemy 110 “— all a favor and ...” 111 Luc’s gal pal 112 Simple substances split in eight long answers in this puzzle 119 Pop singer Celine 120 One hanging in the air 121 Sherpa, e.g. 122 E-mail status 123 Fifty percent 124 “The way things look to me ...”

DOWN

1 Pent-up 2 As straight as — 3 “The Twilight

Zone” host 4 Jessica of “Sin

City” 5 Texting titter 6 Census stat 7 Meets the chal

lenge of 8 Jib holders 9 Burnt residue 10 Salt Lake City col

legian 11 Place: Abbr. 12 Homer’s cry 13 More guileful 14 Slick offering at a

spa? 15 Infer 16 County in Kentucky or Indiana 17 Reddish purple

color 18 Ex-Twin Tony 19 Swiftness 24 Pic on a pec, per

haps 29 UPS items: Abbr. 31 Pre-Easter periods 32 Kitchen exten

sion? 33 Pay mind to 34 Tax mo. 35 Ut. neighbor 36 Golfing peg 38 Skull’s place 41 Outlet event 42 Writer Bunin 43 Zulu’s group 44 Plop (down) 45 Fenway stat 47 Functions 48 Cruise stop 52 Happen to 53 Rocky peaks 56 Wynonna Judd’s

sister 57 Unsoiled 58 Luxury hotel chain 59 Hip dwelling 60 NHLer, e.g. 61 Barley bristle 63 Sharp pains 64 Lhasa — (dog

breed) 66 Nabokov heroine 67 Classic Karel

Capek play 68 — center (play

area) 69 Be in power 70 Unit of fat 71 “— Lama Ding

Dong” 72 Film version, e.g. 75 Person reading for

a role, say 76 Big name in toy

bricks 77 Place of bliss 79 Heart rocker

Wilson 80 Wind dir. 81 Choo-choo 82 Furrows 85 “— in Calico” (old

song) 86 Smartphone of the

2000s 88 Merciful 89 Iroquois tribe 91 Suffix with ethyl 92 95, to Nero 93 Asian ideal 94 Food 96 Western cattle

farm 97 Korean city near

Seoul 100 Apple tablets 101 Flax-like fiber 102 Superman por

trayer Christopher 103 WWW bookmark 104 Singer — Marie 106 People of Rwanda 107 Benefit 110 Galley mark 113 “Ho-hum” 114 401(k) kin 115 Bit of cartoon art 116 Whelp’s yelp 117 Prefix with center 118 Family VIPs