| Doctoral candidate's exam | 29 |
| Taken by mouth, as medication | 29 |
| Nerve-wracking exam, for some | 29 |
| Doctorate seeker's hurdle | 29 |
| Dentist's kind of surgery | 29 |
| Degree candidate's hurdle | 29 |
| Maker of Rembrandt toothpaste | 29 |
| Part of a third degree, maybe | 29 |
| Hurdle for a doctoral student | 29 |
| How medication is often taken | 29 |
| One way to convey information | 29 |
| How some papers are presented | 29 |
| How Ph.D. theses are defended | 29 |
| Degree requirement, sometimes | 29 |
| Evangelist Roberts and others | 29 |
| Think-on-your-feet challenges | 29 |
| Medical student's hurdles | 29 |
| Port of a 1942 Allies landing | 29 |
| Shaggy ape of Borneo, briefly | 29 |
| Long-armed primate, for short | 29 |
| U.S. threat level at airports | 29 |
| Color in a Kubrick film title | 29 |
| Political entity of 1854-1900 | 29 |
| Former South African province | 29 |
| East, West and South, in N.J. | 29 |
| Speak to one's countrymen | 29 |
| Sound off in the Senate, e.g. | 29 |
| Gave the commencement address | 29 |
| It may begin with an exordium | 29 |
| Virginia's Henry, for one | 29 |
| "The Messiah," e.g. | 29 |
| "Elijah" and others | 29 |
| Symbol on Harris Tweed labels | 29 |
| Spherical shape, like a globe | 29 |
| Kentucky Derby winner of 2013 | 29 |
| Basketball but not a football | 29 |
| "You Got It" singer | 29 |
| A satellite may be kept in it | 29 |
| Paths of planets or particles | 29 |
| Some Christmas tree ornaments | 29 |
| Spheres like the sun and moon | 29 |
| Scepters' companion items | 29 |
| Brutish Middle-earth resident | 29 |
| "The Hobbit" figure | 29 |
| "The Hobbit" baddie | 29 |
| "Free Willy" animal | 29 |
| Whale vs. bounty hunter flick | 29 |
| Vancouver Canucks logo animal | 29 |
| ''Jaws'' ship | 29 |
| ''Jaws'' boat | 29 |
| White-bellied marine predator | 29 |
| Sighting in the North Pacific | 29 |
| SeaWorld's Corky II, e.g. | 29 |
| "Blackfish" subject | 29 |
| They put on a whale of a show | 29 |
| Black-and-white sea predators | 29 |
| "Wolves of the sea" | 29 |
| Doomed area in a Chekhov play | 29 |
| Prom-dress adornment, perhaps | 29 |
| Dungeons & Dragons beasts | 29 |
| Tolkien's Gorbag and Bolg | 29 |
| O'Hare's airport code | 29 |
| Fort near Monterey until 1994 | 29 |
| California's old Fort ___ | 29 |
| "___ in the court!" | 29 |
| Tell the waiter what you want | 29 |
| It's bigger than a family | 29 |
| Henry M. Robert's concern | 29 |
| Concern of Robert's Rules | 29 |
| "Atten-TION!," e.g. | 29 |
| At a diner, they're short | 29 |
| First, second, or third, e.g. | 29 |
| Rockhound's find, perhaps | 29 |
| It might have a silver lining | 29 |
| Fruit of a miner's labors | 29 |
| Some bucket conveyor material | 29 |
| Rock with gold or silver, say | 29 |
| Material in seams and pockets | 29 |
| It's picked out of a mine | 29 |
| Nymph associated with Artemis | 29 |
| Seasoning used in a trattoria | 29 |
| Turgenev's home in Russia | 29 |
| Russian oblast or its capital | 29 |
| Oblast between Kursk and Tula | 29 |
| L.A. Dodgers great Hersheiser | 29 |
| "Bulldog" Hershiser | 29 |
| Words before the consequences | 29 |
| Bully's last words, maybe | 29 |
| Utah Valley University locale | 29 |
| Provo's northern neighbor | 29 |
| Creme-filled chocolate cookie | 29 |
| Cookie often eaten inside-out | 29 |
| White-and-black stacked snack | 29 |
| Something often twisted apart | 29 |
| Kind of "snackwich" | 29 |
| It's creamy in the middle | 29 |
| "Double Stuf" treat | 29 |
| Post-sandwich sandwich cookie | 29 |
| Little dipper in a milky way? | 29 |
| It has a 1 3/4" diameter | 29 |