| Sch. whose mascot is the Wildcat | 32 |
| Sch. in the Granite State | 25 |
| Sch. due north from Boston | 26 |
| New England univ. | 17 |
| New England sch. with campuses in Durham and Manchester | 55 |
| New England sch. with a wildcat mascot | 38 |
| New Eng. school | 15 |
| John Irving's alma mater | 28 |
| Its law sch. is in Concord | 26 |
| Durham sch. whose mascot is the Wildcats | 40 |
| Durham campus: Abbr. | 20 |
| Coll. in Durham | 15 |
| America East sch. | 17 |
| Alma mater of puzzlemakers Mike Nothnagel and yours truly | 57 |
| Alma mater of Basketball Hall of Famer Jackie MacMullan | 55 |
| Cleans hides for tanning | 24 |
| "___ me, you villain!" | 32 |
| "__ me, you villain!" | 31 |
| Start of a damsel's distressed demand | 41 |
| Heroine's word to a villain | 31 |
| Hero's command to the villain, with "her" | 55 |
| "___ me, villain!" | 28 |
| "___ me, sir!" | 24 |
| Damsel's demand | 19 |
| Melodrama heroine's command | 31 |
| Lets go, in a melodrama | 23 |
| Lets go, as a villain | 21 |
| Inconvenient | 12 |
| Bad luck, old-style | 19 |
| Not as content | 14 |
| Miserable state | 15 |
| Lift the restraints | 19 |
| Release a fastener | 18 |
| Doff one's derby | 20 |
| Remove one's cap, as in respect | 35 |
| Knock off a bowler | 18 |
| Take off the topper | 19 |
| Doff, as a derby | 16 |
| Doff one's cap | 18 |
| Doff headgear | 13 |
| Tip the derby | 13 |
| Tip the chapeau | 15 |
| Take the top off of, in a way | 29 |
| Take one's cap off | 22 |
| Take away a beret | 17 |
| Remove one's chapeau | 24 |
| Remove one's bowler? | 24 |
| Remove a fedora | 15 |
| Relieve of a chapeau | 20 |
| Pull off one's derby | 24 |
| Knock off a derby, e.g. | 23 |
| Doff the skimmer | 16 |
| Doff one's bowler | 21 |
| Doff a derby, old style | 23 |
| Doff a derby | 12 |
| Doff a bowler | 13 |
| Doff poetically | 16 |
| Like a dinosaur embryo | 22 |
| Doffs one's lid | 19 |
| Doffs one's topper | 22 |
| Doffs one's lid, old-style | 30 |
| Uses a coatrack, maybe | 22 |
| Removes the topper | 18 |
| Still broken, say | 17 |
| Not yet better | 14 |
| Harmful, in a way | 17 |
| For an ailing prince? | 21 |
| Not listened to | 15 |
| Falling upon deaf ears | 22 |
| Falling on deaf ears | 20 |
| Not loud enough | 15 |
| Not given an audience | 21 |
| Like the proverbial tree that falls in the forest | 49 |
| Like good children, traditionally | 33 |
| ___ of (never before known) | 27 |
| Like the first ever | 19 |
| Like many swimming pools | 24 |
| Like many a beach house | 23 |
| Like an igloo | 13 |
| Furnaceless | 11 |
| Ignored, as advice | 18 |
| Disregarded, as advice | 22 |
| Not reserved, as a table | 24 |
| Not in anyone's possession | 30 |
| Not purfled | 11 |
| Given free range, as cattle | 27 |
| Hardly parade-worthy, say | 25 |
| Pluckless | 9 |
| Not yet shaped | 14 |
| Not shaped, as logs | 19 |
| Not axed | 8 |
| Remove a curse from | 19 |
| Correct a spelling error? | 25 |
| Not masked | 10 |
| Make unstable | 13 |
| Drive over the edge | 19 |
| Disrupt; perturb | 16 |
| Disrupt from stable conditions | 30 |
| In disorder; upset | 18 |
| Definitely not cool | 19 |