| High mucky muck, for short | 27 |
| Hierarchy-chart topper | 22 |
| Hierarchy chart's top box | 29 |
| Head of a board: Abbr. | 22 |
| Fortune profilee, for short | 27 |
| Corporate kahuna, for short | 27 |
| Corporate biggie, briefly | 25 |
| Corner office type: Abbr. | 25 |
| Corner office occupier | 22 |
| CNN's Jeff Zucker, e.g. | 27 |
| Business founder, often | 23 |
| Business bigwig: Abbr. | 22 |
| Bonus recipient, often | 22 |
| Board of directors hiree | 24 |
| Board big shot, briefly | 23 |
| Bill Gates, e.g.: Abbr. | 23 |
| Big decision maker, say | 23 |
| Apple's Tim Cook, e.g. | 26 |
| Corporate V.I.P.'s | 22 |
| Visionaries, they hope | 22 |
| Corporate honchos, for short | 28 |
| Business bigwigs, briefly | 25 |
| Boardroom V.I.P.'s | 22 |
| Some Fortune mag. readers | 25 |
| Some CNBC interviewees | 22 |
| Simonides' birthplace | 25 |
| Senior employees, for short | 27 |
| Mitt Romney and others, once | 28 |
| Fortune profilees, for short | 28 |
| Firm wheels, for short | 22 |
| Figs. in company reports | 24 |
| Corporations' VIPs | 22 |
| Corporate heads, for short | 26 |
| Business bigwigs briefly | 25 |
| Boardroom bigwigs: Abbr. | 24 |
| Bill Gates and Steve Jobs | 25 |
| Like terra cotta tiles | 22 |
| Like Limoges collectibles | 25 |
| Like terra-cotta tiles | 22 |
| Kind of glaze or mosaic | 23 |
| Clay or porcelain object | 24 |
| Parrot's beak part | 22 |
| Part of a bird's beak | 25 |
| Part of a bird's bill | 25 |
| Membrane of a bird's beak | 29 |
| Part of a parrot's beak | 27 |
| Part of a parrot's bill | 27 |
| Area of a bird's beak | 25 |
| Swelling on a bird's beak | 29 |
| Smear with wax, old-style | 25 |
| Parrot's facial feature | 27 |
| Parakeet's beak area | 24 |
| Canary's "nose" | 29 |
| Food named for a goddess | 24 |
| Post box's contents | 23 |
| Life at a grocery store | 23 |
| Farm produce eventually | 24 |
| Cap'n Crunch, e.g. | 22 |
| Alternative to waffles | 22 |
| Where the Nuggets play? | 23 |
| Postseason game for flakes? | 27 |
| Morning dish, for many | 22 |
| LBO for Cap'n Crunch? | 25 |
| Some have prizes inside | 23 |
| Post boxes' contents | 24 |
| Life and Total, for two | 23 |
| Flakes, pops, and granola | 25 |
| Flakes, pops and granola | 24 |
| Crunch and crackle foods | 24 |
| Soap opera about Life? | 22 |
| Like you, solving this | 22 |
| Intellectually stimulating | 26 |
| Intellectually appealing | 24 |
| Appealing to the intellect | 26 |
| Appealing to brainiacs | 22 |
| Roman goddess of agriculture | 28 |
| Goddess of agriculture | 22 |
| Goddess who knew her oats | 25 |
| First-discovered asteroid | 25 |
| Largest known asteroid | 22 |
| Demeter's counterpart | 25 |
| Proserpina's mother | 23 |
| First observed asteroid | 23 |
| Roman version of Demeter | 24 |
| Roman goddess of earth | 22 |
| Heavenly discovery of 1801 | 26 |
| Goddess of growing crops | 24 |
| First discovered asteroid | 25 |
| First asteroid discovered | 25 |
| Random House cofounder | 22 |
| U. S. punster and publisher | 27 |
| Random House founder Bennett | 28 |
| Random House co-founder | 23 |
| Punny panelist-publisher | 24 |
| Publisher Bennett: 1898-1971 | 28 |
| Memorable publisher-editor | 26 |
| Game show panelist Bennett | 26 |
| At Random autobiographer | 27 |
| Crayola color since 1993 | 24 |
| Moderate to deep crimson | 24 |