(JOSHUA) FERRIS, THEN WE CAME TO THE END — Our [copywriter]... Don... had another screenplay about a disaffected and cynical copywriter suffering ennui in the office setting... while dreaming of becoming a famous screenwriter, which he claimed was not autobiographical.
| A. | Meal of cereal grain | FARINA |
| B. | Looking for oneself on the Internet | EGOSURFING |
| C. | Color in roulette | ROUGE |
| D. | One making a personal withdrawal? | RECLUSE |
| E. | Human period before bipedal locomotion | INFANCY |
| F. | Opposite of ad-libbed | SCRIPTED |
| G. | 1992 film satire of Hollywood ambition (2 wds.) | THEPLAYER |
| H. | Part of an actor's job application | HEADSHOT |
| I. | Promoting workplace comfort and efficiency | ERGONOMIC |
| J. | Like the maid in a Thomas Percy ballad (hyph.) | NUTBROWN |
| K. | Two-person cutter; swing sharply | WHIPSAW |
| L. | Serialized, as a novel | EPISODIC |
| M. | Slang for a partitioned workplace (2 wds.) | CUBEFARM |
| N. | Still single, but unavailable for dating | AFFIANCED |
| O. | Cocktail poured over crushed ice (2 wds.) | MAITAI |
| P. | Environmental science | ECOLOGY |
| Q. | Scientist in a managerial position | TECHNOCRAT |
| R. | Cool, distant, aloof, reserved | OFFISH |
| S. | Having a certain job security | TENURED |
| T. | Subject of King Kamehameha | HAWAIIAN |
| U. | Full of juice? | ELECTRIC |
| V. | "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" poem | ENDYMION |
| W. | Outburst from one who is harried and exasperated (2 wds.) | NOWWHAT |
| X. | Beleaguered worker in a strip | DILBERT |