| Blackens with chimney grime | 27 |
| Like many old fireplaces | 24 |
| Like a well-used chimney | 24 |
| Like Santa's laundry? | 25 |
| Like a blackened chimney | 24 |
| Like Santa's boots | 22 |
| Like Santa on Christmas Eve? | 28 |
| Like Santa after a delivery | 27 |
| Like a sweep's uniform | 26 |
| Chimney sweep's condition | 29 |
| Blackened, as a chimney | 23 |
| Absorb, with "up" | 27 |
| Bread for dipping, e.g. | 23 |
| Something given to pacify | 25 |
| Dip, as bread in gravy | 22 |
| Something for Cerberus | 22 |
| Dunk, as bread in gravy | 23 |
| Bread for a stew, e.g. | 22 |
| Piece of food for dipping | 25 |
| One way to get the gravy | 24 |
| Sample sauce with bread | 23 |
| Offering of appeasement | 23 |
| Bread, vis-Ã -vis gravy | 25 |
| Bread for dipping, say | 22 |
| Absorb (with "up") | 28 |
| Meryl Streep title role | 23 |
| Tenth-grader, for short | 23 |
| Jayvee athlete, perhaps | 23 |
| 10th grader, for short | 22 |
| Tenth grader, for short | 23 |
| One of last year's frosh | 28 |
| Second-year student, briefly | 28 |
| One who soon becomes a jr. | 26 |
| Certain student, for short | 26 |
| What a frosh studies to be? | 27 |
| Second-year, for short | 22 |
| Second-year student, shortly | 28 |
| Second year student, shortly | 28 |
| School year, for short | 22 |
| One who's junior to a jr. | 29 |
| One who was a frosh last year | 29 |
| One who attends school hops | 27 |
| One of the recent frosh | 23 |
| Next year's junior | 22 |
| New frat member, maybe | 22 |
| Last year's frosh, today | 28 |
| JV team member, perhaps | 23 |
| JV player, most likely | 22 |
| Junior's junior, briefly | 28 |
| History 201 taker, perhaps | 26 |
| Future junior, briefly | 22 |
| Frosh's next class | 22 |
| Former freshman, for short | 26 |
| Certain collegian, for short | 28 |
| A B.Y.U. attendee, e.g. | 23 |
| 10th-grader, for short | 22 |
| 10th grader, informally | 23 |
| '14 grad in '12, e.g. | 29 |
| '13 grad in '11, e.g. | 29 |
| Old title of Persian kings | 26 |
| Loren of "Lady L" | 27 |
| Hagia ___ (Istanbul landmark) | 29 |
| "El Cid" co-star | 26 |
| 1982 title role for Meryl | 25 |
| William Styron title heroine | 28 |
| She famously had a choice | 25 |
| 1982 film role for Meryl | 24 |
| "___ choice" | 22 |
| Meryl Streep Oscar film | 23 |
| 1982 Meryl Streep film | 22 |
| One whose reasoning is faulty | 29 |
| One whose logic is faulty | 25 |
| Noël and Cole, e.g. | 22 |
| Those with faulty logic | 23 |
| Clever, specious reasoners | 26 |
| Second or tenth, in a way | 25 |
| Dramatist from Colonus | 22 |
| 16-year-old, typically | 22 |
| Rookie's superstition | 25 |
| Second of four at college | 25 |
| Some students, briefly | 22 |
| Second-year students, briefly | 29 |
| Campus group, informally | 24 |
| They're no longer frosh | 27 |
| Tenth-graders, briefly | 22 |
| Some students, for short | 24 |
| Second-year coll. students | 26 |
| Juniors' juniors, briefly | 29 |
| Future juniors, briefly | 23 |
| 10 students, for short? | 23 |
| Contemporary of Aeschylus | 25 |
| Rip Van Winkle's state | 26 |
| Profoundly lethargic state | 26 |
| Sleep-inducing medicaments | 26 |
| Long-winded speeches, e.g. | 26 |
| ___ up (absorbed, as gravy) | 27 |
| Absorbed, with "up" | 29 |
| __ up (absorbed, as gravy) | 26 |
| Piece of bread, at times | 24 |
| Sentimental, and then some | 26 |