Letter A
Advance one's career
Airplane maneuver
Approach the peak of
Ascend Everest, maybe
Ascend a mountain
Ascend, as a ladder
Ascend, as a peak
Ascend, as the social ladder
Attain new heights
Ascend a mountain or ladder
Ascend in a tree?
Aussie mountain guide's preparation list?
Ambitious Kennedy?
Artificial construction for mountaineers
Add to a cheerleader formation
Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does
Act frantically
"Ah Sun-flower! ... / Seeking after that sweet golden __": Blake
"And give to every ___ and soil / The beauty lost so long": Whittier
Area with a particular weather
Area, weatherwise
ASSURE SUCCESS
Assure victory
Assure, as a pennant
Auto item with rubber flanges
Assures, as victory
A Poor Man's Roses singer Patsy
Act like a helicopter parent, say
Act like a mama's boy
Adjective for plastic wrap
Apt to adhere
Apt to stick
Austere; antiseptic
Ash and other residue from burnt coal
ANGLE of inclination of surfaces measuring instrument
an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation
Actor Eastwood
Actor Walker
Actor Walker from Ill.
Actor/director Eastwood
American soccer icon ___ Dempsey
"A Better Man" country singer
Actor/director who could produce OLD WEST ACTION?
Actor who played the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's westerns
"An Invitation to the White House" author
"Atomic Dog" singer George
Aaron Burr's successor
A sister of Terpsichore
AD TV ADJUNCT
ADVERTISER WITH A SWOOSH
ADVERTISING ARRANGEMENT
ADVERTISING CIRCULAR
AN HONOR OR AWARD GAINED FOR EXCELLENCE
AWARD FROM HRH
AWARD STAGE
AWARD for bravery
Ad agency award
Ad agency reward
Ad agency's reward
Ad biz accolade
Ad biz award
Ad biz prize
Ad business award
Ad writer's award
Ad writer's honor
Ad writer's muse?
Ad's award
Ad-biz trophy
Ad-writing award
Addison's pen name.
Addison's pseudonym.
Addison's signature in the Spectator.
Adman's award
Advertiser of the Year award, e.g.
Advertiser's award
Advertiser's honor
Advertising accolade
Advertising award named for a Muse
Advertising industry award
Advertising statue
Advertising-industry award
Annual award giver
Annual award named for a Muse
Attic Muse
Auden's "Homage to ___"
Award coveted in "Mad Men"
Award coveted on "Mad Men"
Automotive award from Motor Trend, for short
Award for Agency of the Year
Award for Agency of the Year, e.g.
Award for Saatchi & Saatchi
Award for TV commercials
Award for a TV ad
Award for a TV commercial
Award for a commercial
Award for an ad
Award for commercial writers
Award for creative directors
Award for television commercials
Annual advertising accolade
Award given out on the spot
Award given to the creators of Dos Equis' "The Most Interesting Man" ad
Award in the ad biz
Award in the ad business
Award named for a Muse
Award named for a goddess
Award talked about on "Mad Men"
Award that Don Draper won on TV's "Mad Men"
Award won by Don Draper
Automotive brand introduced by Renault
Award for creative ad campaigns
astronomy Muse
Annually celebrated promotions?
Anagram of COLORATORIE, relating to classical muse
Ad awards
Ad prizes
Advertisers' awards
Advertising awards
Advertising-industry awards
Agency awards
Awards for TV commercials
Awards for ace pitchers
Awards for ad agencies
Awards for ads
Awards for advertising
Awards for great pitchers?
Awards for some campaigns
Awards in "Mad Men"
Awards in the ad biz
Awards named for a Muse
Awards that have had a Healthcare category since 2009
Awards vied for on "Mad Men"
"At the Movies" bit
"At the Movies" segment
A FAUX PAS COMMIT A COURT INFRACTION
A LIGHT-SENSITIVE COATING ON PAPER OR FILM
APPLIANCE to hold things together
Alternative to a staple
Apt rhyme for "snip"
Automatic adjunct
Attachable, as sunglasses
Accessory that a preschooler might wear on picture day
Articles of neckwear that are a snap to use?
An article cut from a newspaper or magazine
an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
Apt to stay with one's pals
Awards for billboards
Adheres, in British dialect.
"Amazing" E. G. Robinson role
Adventure writer Cussler
Anglo Indian empire founder
Arista founder Davis
Author Barker
Author Cussler
Anatomical cavity where good ol' caca comes out
Ancient sewer
"Assassin's Creed" garment
A RELATIVELY LONG DAGGER WITH A STRAIGHT BLADE
__ and dagger
__-and-dagger (secretive)
a loose outer garment
abolla
a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily
Attire for Count Dracula and Doctor Strange
A MEETING OF PEOPLE FOR CONSULTATION
A TIMEPIECE THAT MEASURES A TIME INTERVAL AND SIGNALS ITS END
A TIMEPIECE THAT SHOWS THE TIME OF DAY
Air-terminal fixture.
A railbird
Artisan with time on his hands
Activity for bored students and office drudges
A certain mechanism.
A ____: 1971 Kubrick film
Anthony Burgess novel (with "A")
Anthony Burgess thriller, with "A"
Apt rhyme for "sod"
Awkward people
Author of "The African Giant."
A BACKUP PLAN
A PLUMBING FIXTURE FOR DEFECATION AND URINATION
A PLUMBING FIXTURE THAT PROVIDES A FLOW OF WATER
ACCESS TO PLUMBING OR WIR
Apt shoe for a plumber?
Appalachian entertainment
Appalachian entertainers
Activity in wooden shoes
Art enamelware.
Apt rhyme for "stomp"
AUSTRALIAN Royal Flying Doctor Service-founding town (Qld 1928)
A CARBON COPY
A SCIENTIST WHO DEVOTES HIMSELF TO DOING RESEARCH
A SCIENTIST WHO STUDIES PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE SEAS
ABOUT WANDER
AN EXACT COPY OR REPRODUCTION
Any "Jurassic Park" beast
Any "Jurassic Park" creature
Any "Jurassic Park" dinosaur
Any of several characters played by Tatiana Maslany on "Orphan Black"
Animated show that asked, "what if '90210' was about Gandhi and Joan of Arc?"
Attackers in a "Star Wars" prequel
ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION BY BUDDING
ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION BY THE PRODUCTION AND RELEASE OF SPORES
Asexual reproduction
Actor in both the sitcom "E/R" and the drama "ER"
Actor George's Spotify playlist?
A CONSONANT PRODUCED WITHOUT SOUND FROM THE VOCAL CORDS
A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT IN WHICH THE SOUND IS PRODUCED BY ONE OBJECT STRIKING ANOTHER
Amish country sound
animal hoof
ANTIPLATELET drug
Actress Leachman
Arguably redundant name for a laundry product
A "Fatal Attraction" star
ACTRESS WORTH
APPROACH (naut.)
AT the heels of
Actress Glenn
Actress in "The Big Chill"
Almost a tie.
Almost but not quite
Almost tied
Anybody's game
Around the corner, say
"A winner … almost"
"Almost," or a theme hint
A bit off, sadly
Airline reports on seating in coach
Almost disastrous incidents
Actress Glenn ceases performing?
After-hours shop sign
After-hours sign
After-hours store sign
Approached for a raid
Alien abductions, e.g.
Alien sightings
Actress overdoes it?
ADVANCE OR CONVERGE ON
Approach, as to attack
Approach in a way.
A DESIRE FOR SEXUAL INTIMACY
AN ACT OF UNDUE INTIMACY
a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
Army practice
A kind of sale.
a person who closes something
A short distance
Act together defensively
At its nearest point yet
Admits no more customers
Approaches, with "in"
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