| Text | Length |
| How rumors often spread | 23 |
| Foreign languages exams | 23 |
| Dissertation forerunner | 23 |
| Grueling grad grillings | 23 |
| Graduate-school hurdles | 23 |
| Exams before committees | 23 |
| Endings of some courses | 23 |
| Site of Santa Cruz fort | 23 |
| Singer ____ Juice Jones | 23 |
| Port south of Cartagena | 23 |
| Pivotal port in W.W. II | 23 |
| Landing area: Nov. 1942 | 23 |
| Earthquake site in 1790 | 23 |
| City (anagram for Arno) | 23 |
| Long-armed zoo creature | 23 |
| Tailless ape, for short | 23 |
| Chimp relative, briefly | 23 |
| Borneo beast, for short | 23 |
| Color on the Irish flag | 23 |
| Grand Marnier flavoring | 23 |
| Fruit shunned by poets? | 23 |
| Princely European house | 23 |
| Old English royal house | 23 |
| Disneyland's county | 23 |
| Clementine's cousin | 23 |
| Container for mandarins | 23 |
| Certain fruit container | 23 |
| Popular Fanta-like soda | 23 |
| Some pongids, for short | 23 |
| Reddish apes, for short | 23 |
| Kneeling figure, in art | 23 |
| Give a valedictory, say | 23 |
| Pronounce from a podium | 23 |
| Give one's address? | 23 |
| Emulate a valedictorian | 23 |
| Sound off from the dais | 23 |
| Play to a C-Span camera | 23 |
| Go campaigning, in part | 23 |
| Give a long-winded talk | 23 |
| Emulate Stephen Douglas | 23 |
| Deliver a formal speech | 23 |
| Spouts from the soapbox | 23 |
| Speaks like Robert Byrd | 23 |
| Practices Ciceronianism | 23 |
| Gives a keynote address | 23 |
| Emulates Edward Everett | 23 |
| Emulates Daniel Webster | 23 |
| Patrick Henry specialty | 23 |
| Daniel Webster, for one | 23 |
| Eloquent public speaker | 23 |
| Daniel Webster, notably | 23 |
| Henry and Dirksen, e.g. | 23 |
| Fourth of July speakers | 23 |
| Delivery professionals? | 23 |
| Sun or moon, poetically | 23 |
| Scepter's companion | 23 |
| Moon or sun, poetically | 23 |
| Mercury or Saturn e.g. | 23 |
| Fashioned into a sphere | 23 |
| Circle, as an astronaut | 23 |
| Trips around the world? | 23 |
| The sun, moon and stars | 23 |
| Symbols of kingly power | 23 |
| Sovereigns' spheres | 23 |
| Eyeballs or moons, e.g. | 23 |
| Monstrous Tolkien being | 23 |
| Hideous Tolkien beastie | 23 |
| Largest oceanic dolphin | 23 |
| Black-and-white swimmer | 23 |
| "Jaws" vessel | 23 |
| Bicolored ocean prowler | 23 |
| Shamu Stadium performer | 23 |
| Largest of the dolphins | 23 |
| Killer in the high seas | 23 |
| Gigantic ocean predator | 23 |
| Dangerous ocean dweller | 23 |
| Black-and-white dolphin | 23 |
| 400-pound calf, perhaps | 23 |
| Black-and-white threats | 23 |
| Black-and-white mammals | 23 |
| Black-and-white killers | 23 |
| Black and white threats | 23 |
| Big aquarium performers | 23 |
| N.Y. Philharmonic, e.g. | 23 |
| Section under the mezz. | 23 |
| Site for an apple press | 23 |
| Tough Tolkien creatures | 23 |
| Windy City airport code | 23 |
| Military weapons: Abbr. | 23 |
| O'Hare airport code | 23 |
| Monterey's Fort ___ | 23 |
| MDW neighbor in Chicago | 23 |
| Fort ___, in California | 23 |
| Chicago baggage letters | 23 |
| Chicago airport letters | 23 |
| Confer holy orders upon | 23 |
| Admit to the priesthood | 23 |
| Installs, as a minister | 23 |
| Periods in prison, e.g. | 23 |
| Word with tall or short | 23 |
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