PREMIER CROSSWORD
ELEMENTAL EXPANSION
ACROSS
1 Legal aide, e.g.: Abbr.
5 Livestock pen
11 Legal aide, for short
15 “Moneytalks” rock band
19 Arena area
20 Edenic locale
21 “... — it just me?”
22 Dutch South African
23 “Help yourself!,” elementally?
26 Be jealous of
27 Liqueur akin to sambuca
28 Dessert, to a Brit
30 Bro’s sibling
31 Whitewater transports
32 About to receive something special, elementally?
37 Afflictions
39 Madison Ave. products
40 Canon camera line
41 Vital vessel
42 Detective Briscoe on “Law & Order”
45 Brooks
47 Unpaved road surface
48 Ontarians’ national anthem, elementally?
50 Bullring cheer
52 Rx requests
53 N-R linkup
54 Cyclotron bit
55 Upgrade electrically
58 Committing a basketball infraction
61 “Not gonna happen,” elementally?
68 Without requiring me to change
69 Like Columbus, by birth
70 Weird sort
71 1998 Spike Lee film, elementally?
74 Copious, as sweating
76 Declared it to be true
77 Pair
78 — Tin Tin
79 Ancient Cuzco citizen
83 ICU staffers
84 Bill Clinton’s veep, elementally?
90 Like many big grins
92 Absorb, as spilled ink or gravy
93 Collect
94 Skylit lobbies
95 “— tree falls in the forest ...”
97 Lass
98 Surrender
99 Puccini opera, elementally?
103 French painter Edgar
107 ThinkPad’s original co.
108 Like LeBron James, a record
18 times
109 Estrange
111 Baldwin of “It’s Complicated”
113 “You have my word,” elementally?
117 Not far from
118 Pizza cooker
119 Insect stages
120 TV’s — May Clampett
121 Port in Norway
122 Cruel Roman emperor
123 Smiles evilly
124 “The Thin Man” dog
DOWN
1 Being tried, legally
2 Tuscan tourist city
3 Letter stroke
4 Meeting secretly, in a way
5 Extremist sect
6 Ear ailment
7 French city
8 Stat of engine speed
9 Intend (to)
10 Put down
11 Low seats with no backs
12 Rejoinder to “Am not!”
13 Alarm clock heeders
14 “Ad — per aspera”
15 Civil War prez
16 Utilize sparingly
17 Strayed off course
18 Ice needles, e.g.
24 Actress Caron
25 Whale pod
29 Asterisk
33 “Rats!”
34 Notion
35 Didn’t waste
36 Gad about
38 Colleague of Trotsky
42 Spa scrubber
43 Unearth
44 Sedating Vicks product
45 With 67-Down, kitchen tool
46 Hoopster — Abdul-Jabbar
47 Kid’s “cootie”
49 Gear piece
50 Injury, to a tot
51 Lucy of “Elementary”
56 Besides that
57 Brand of shoes and leather goods
59 Chou En- —
60 Don of talk radio
61 Ensnares
62 Shot — (ice hockey stat)
63 Snake type
64 Dog sound
65 Cell with an axon
66 Thirst for
67 See 45-Down
69 Thor and Loki
72 Miss Poppins
73 Gimlet liquor
74 “Poultry in motion,” e.g.
75 Red cosmetic
77 Brief swim
79 Language of Rome, to its natives
80 Prominent people
81 Polenta base
82 On the job
85 Company ID
86 Provo’s state
87 Equine hybrid 88 Football great John
89 Gunpowder or matcha
91 “How funny”
92 Toddler, in Turin
95 Smitten romantically
96 Financial backer
98 Wine storage locale
100 “March comes in like — ...”
101 Make illegal
102 Purple hue
104 Irritates
105 Off-kilter
106 “So long!”
110 — of March
112 Lead-in to Magnon
114 Overhead rails
115 Sickly pale
116 Iron source