The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Climbing The Corporate Ladder
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1 Sunni jihadist grp. 5 — 10 Alternatively, online 14 — 19 Impermanent hill 20 Bath-loving TV character 21 Lionhearted sort 22 College booster? 23 Fuji rival 24 Ingredient in glassmaking 25 Meal plan 26 Architect of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao 27 Genetic variant 29 Melodramatic sound 31 What may be forever? 33 High-school class, briefly 34 Exams that students get F’s on? 35 Liquid harmful to vampires 37 100 Iranian dinars 38 Fully caffeinated, say 39 Stood for 40 Singer Carlisle of the Go-Go’s 42 Yardbirds 43 Lexical ref. 44 Land 45 Former Seattle pro 46 Looney Tunes “devil,” for short 47 — 49 Lighted icons on airplanes 53 Coming down the line? 55 — 57 Offshoot 58 Scratches (out) 59 Imaginary 61 Former Houston athlete 62 Annual celebration on Jan. 6 65 First silent film to win Best Picture since “Wings” 68 — 69 i, for -1 70 Arch locale 71 Give a zero-star review, say 73 “Once again ...” 75 When viewed one way 76 Opposites of fantasts 80 Piddling 82 Response deflecting blame 83 More to come shortly? 85 Magneticinduction unit 86 Org. whose website has a lot of links? 88 Poetic dusk 89 Something to take to a beach 90 English monarch called “the Magnificent” 93 Manhattan campus 95 ____ voce 96 Move like groundwater 97 The devil’s workshop, as the saying goes 99 — 100 Sea dog 101 — 102 Peace, to Pushkin 103 Over again 104 Time for a siesta, perhaps 106 Boot 108 Whole essence 110 Having a row 112 Fibonacci, for one 113 Atop 114 Shark girl in “West Side Story” 115 TV amazon 116 Initiates 117 Tickled, and how! 118 Part of an unsound argument 119 As a consequence
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1 State bordering B.C. 2 Rio de Janeiro peak 3 Something caught in the air 4 Some arctic hunters 5 [Automobiles] 6 Member of a noted quintet 7 Big inits. in comedy 8 Attaches, as with rope 9 Study for a Masters? 10 One doesn’t have much resistance 11 Golfers drive off it 12 Ready follower? 13 Mobile home 14 [Video games] 15 ____ kwon do 16 Garbage collector 17 Multitudinous 18 Quid pro quo on the radio 28 Young salamander 30 Small storage space 32 North-flowing English river 34 What might be revealed in silence 35 Ibsen’s “____ Gabler” 36 Fresh from a shower 37 Crunchy snacks 39 Quit it 41 Mad ____ 43 Gape at 45 Some offshoots 47 [Sportswear] 48 Firm, in a way 49 Step above amateur 50 Debtor’s burden 51 Pamplona runner 52 Bank deposit? 54 Getting together 55 [Mattresses] 56 Fancy spread 60 Foolhardy 62 Paradoxically, when it’s round it’s not circular 63 Trick, slangily 64 Horse color 66 Suggestions 67 Improved, as relations 68 [Elevators] 72 Bean on the moon 74 Actress Cannon 75 Sneaky 77 Vessels near washstands 78 Lipton employee 79 Needlework 81 Book report? 82 General defeated by Scipio, ending the Second Punic War 84 Grow tiresome 86 “Balderdash!” 87 “g,” to a chemist 89 Relative of a halberd 90 Prevents 91 “Hey ____” (1977 Shaun Cassidy hit) 92 Minimal 93 “Soap” spinoff 94 Glandular prefix 95 Certain 35mm camera 98 Magnifying lens 99 [Insurance] 101 [Hotels] 103 Some madrigal singers 105 Ballet step 107 Earthshattering invention? 109 2008 bailout recipient, for short 111 Path to enlightenment