| Author of "Oedipus at Colonus" | 40 |
| Author of "Antigone" | 30 |
| Last year's plebe | 21 |
| 16-year-old, typically | 22 |
| High-school group | 17 |
| Rookie of the Year's concern | 32 |
| Worry of an 'overnight success' | 39 |
| Superstition that a rookie's second season will fail | 56 |
| Rookie's superstition | 25 |
| Promising rookies' doses of reality | 39 |
| Second of four at college | 25 |
| Some undergrads | 15 |
| Second-year students, for short | 31 |
| Second-year students | 20 |
| Future juniors | 14 |
| Some students, briefly | 22 |
| Some campus returnees, briefly | 30 |
| Some campus returnees | 21 |
| Second-year students, briefly | 29 |
| Second-year coeds | 17 |
| Last year's frosh class, now | 32 |
| Juniors' juniors, for short | 31 |
| Jrs.' juniors | 17 |
| Jrs. in training | 16 |
| Jr. wannabes | 12 |
| Frosh's elders | 18 |
| Frosh superiors | 15 |
| Frosh successors | 16 |
| Campus group, informally | 24 |
| Underclassmen | 13 |
| They're no longer frosh | 27 |
| They're no longer freshies | 30 |
| They josh the frosh | 19 |
| Tenth-graders, briefly | 22 |
| Tenth graders: Abbr. | 20 |
| Some students, for short | 24 |
| Some students | 13 |
| Some PSAT takers | 16 |
| Some J.V. players | 17 |
| Some collegians | 15 |
| Second-year collegians, informally | 34 |
| Second-year collegians, for short | 33 |
| Second-year coll. students | 26 |
| Second yr. students | 19 |
| PSAT takers, often | 18 |
| Possible classmates | 19 |
| Next year's jrs. | 20 |
| Juniors' juniors, briefly | 29 |
| Juniors-to-be | 13 |
| Jrs.-to-be | 10 |
| HS underlings | 13 |
| H.S. group | 10 |
| Future juniors, briefly | 23 |
| Frosh teasers | 13 |
| Former freshmen | 15 |
| Classmen | 8 |
| Class men | 9 |
| Campus contingent | 17 |
| 10 students, for short? | 23 |
| Second-year elective? | 21 |
| "And of so easy and ___ stop": Shak. | 46 |
| Contemporary of Aeschylus | 25 |
| Internet bathing/grooming site come-on? | 39 |
| Deep, unnatural sleep | 21 |
| Profound sleep | 14 |
| State of deep sleep | 19 |
| Lethargic state | 15 |
| Rip Van Winkle's state | 26 |
| Profoundly lethargic state | 26 |
| Profoundly deep sleep | 21 |
| Lethargic sleep | 15 |
| Deep, deep sleep | 16 |
| Sleep-inducing medicaments | 26 |
| Long-winded speeches, e.g. | 26 |
| Profound sleeps | 15 |
| Intense sleeps | 14 |
| City NNW of Gdansk | 18 |
| ___ up (absorbed, as gravy) | 27 |
| Soaked up with bread | 20 |
| Soaked (up) | 11 |
| Absorbed, with "up" | 29 |
| __ up (absorbed, as gravy) | 26 |
| Collected, as gravy | 19 |
| Piece of bread, at times | 24 |
| More mawkish | 12 |
| More drenched | 13 |
| Sentimental, and then some | 26 |
| Overly sentimental or overly wet | 32 |
| In the washer, perhaps | 22 |
| Excessively sentimental | 23 |
| They have the highest ranges | 28 |
| Some Italian singers | 20 |
| Sills, Price and others | 23 |
| Price and Bumbry | 16 |
| Higher-ups? | 11 |
| TV mobster | 10 |
| Surname of an HBO crime family | 30 |
| Opera heroine, often | 20 |
| TV mobster Tony | 15 |
| TV crime family name | 20 |