| Ivy covered | 11 |
| Halls of learning, sometimes | 28 |
| Green on the outside? | 21 |
| Creeper covered | 15 |
| Crawling with creepers | 22 |
| Covered with plants, perhaps | 28 |
| Covered with creepers, like Wrigley | 35 |
| Covered with certain vines | 26 |
| Covered by vines | 16 |
| __ halls: academic symbol | 25 |
| Columbia and Cornell, e.g. | 26 |
| Wall climbers | 13 |
| Climbing vines | 14 |
| Brown and Yale | 14 |
| Climbing plants | 15 |
| Wall-climbing plants | 20 |
| Penn and others | 15 |
| Creepers | 8 |
| Campus climbers | 15 |
| Brown and others | 16 |
| Creeping plants | 15 |
| Vines | 5 |
| They climb the walls | 20 |
| They adorn Wrigley | 18 |
| Prestigious institutions | 24 |
| Penn et al. | 11 |
| Outdoor climbers | 16 |
| Harvard, Yale, Brown, etc. | 26 |
| Harvard and Yale, e.g. | 22 |
| Brown group | 11 |
| Brown et al. | 12 |
| Yale, Brown, etc. | 17 |
| Slow-climbing plants | 20 |
| Princeton and Yale | 18 |
| Prestigious schools | 19 |
| Hard-to-get-into schools | 24 |
| Columbia et al. | 15 |
| Climbers | 8 |
| Campus greeneries | 17 |
| Yale et al. | 11 |
| Yale and Princeton | 18 |
| Yale and Brown | 14 |
| Wrigley Field features | 22 |
| Wrigley creepers | 16 |
| With "the," this puzzle's eight teams' homes | 62 |
| Where the smartest rockers went | 31 |
| Wallflower producers? | 21 |
| Wall-climbing vines | 19 |
| Wall creepers | 13 |
| They may be climbing the walls | 30 |
| They climb the walls at some colleges? | 38 |
| They climb the walls at some colleges | 37 |
| Some climbers | 13 |
| Some are English | 16 |
| Slow climbing plants | 20 |
| Slow climbers | 13 |
| Seven Sisters "brothers" | 34 |
| Selective U.S. universities | 27 |
| Prestigious university octet | 28 |
| Prestigious schools, informally | 31 |
| Prestigious octet | 17 |
| Kenilworth and Boston, e.g. | 27 |
| High-tuition schools | 20 |
| Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc., for short | 41 |
| Harvard, Yale, Princeton, et al. | 32 |
| Harvard, Brown, Princeton, etc. | 31 |
| Harvard climbers | 16 |
| Elite octet | 11 |
| Elite colleges | 14 |
| Cornell and Columbia, for two | 29 |
| Columbia and the like | 21 |
| Columbia and others | 19 |
| Collegiate wall creepers | 24 |
| College-hall climbers | 21 |
| College wall climbers | 21 |
| College climbers | 16 |
| Clinging vines | 14 |
| Climbing flora | 14 |
| Climbing creepers | 17 |
| Climbers on campus, perhaps | 27 |
| Building climbers | 17 |
| Brown's group | 17 |
| Brown, Penn, etc. | 17 |
| Brown, Dartmouth, etc. | 22 |
| Brown climbers? | 15 |
| Brown climbers | 14 |
| Boston and poison | 17 |
| Boston and Kenilworth, e.g. | 27 |
| Arbor growths | 13 |
| Arbor growth | 12 |
| Political columnist Molly | 25 |
| Columnist Molly | 15 |
| Molly who wrote "Bushwhacked" | 39 |
| "Molly ___ Can't Say That, Can She?" (1990s best seller) | 70 |
| "Bill of Wrongs" writer Molly | 39 |
| Literature Nobelist Andric | 26 |
| 1961 Literature Nobelist Andric | 31 |
| Pianist Pogorelich | 18 |
| Yugoslav novelist ___ Andric | 28 |
| Novelist Andric | 15 |