San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)

PREMIER CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- ELEMENTAL EXPANSION by Frank A. Longo

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 — AbdulJabba­r

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

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