ELEMENTARY
Credit: Boston Globe Crossword
Henry Hook

The answer to each clue below contains the name of an element. Wordplay is fair play.

1. Widespread, powerful beast of Canada and Northern US
2. Locale of ships crossing the Pacific or Atlantic
3. Point of vulnerability - from mythology
4. Traditional college dorm shenanigans
5. Wonder drug

Answers:

1. Grizzly barium
2. High cesium
3. Achilles helium
4. Panty radium
5. Miracle curium