| Middle Eastern capital | 22 |
| Put ___ in one's ear | 24 |
| "Snug as ___..." | 26 |
| Put ____ in one's ear | 25 |
| "Snug as ____..." | 27 |
| "Snug as ___ ..." | 27 |
| "Snug as ___ ... " | 28 |
| Take unfair advantage of | 24 |
| Violation, as of privileges | 27 |
| Overexercise, as a privilege | 28 |
| Took unfair advantage of | 24 |
| Took advantage of too often | 27 |
| Privilege loser, often | 22 |
| One who overdoes a privilege | 28 |
| Child ___ (cruel parent) | 24 |
| Maltreater's action | 23 |
| What Utah and Nevada do | 23 |
| What Idaho and Oregon do | 24 |
| Touch, as tangential circles | 28 |
| Touch upon, as property | 23 |
| Panama and Costa Rica do it | 27 |
| Models Mendes and Herzigova | 27 |
| Lie adjacent to another | 23 |
| Have contiguous borders | 23 |
| Go cheek-to-cheek with | 22 |
| Be a next-door neighbor to | 26 |
| Twittering with rumors | 22 |
| Rife with conversation | 22 |
| Filled with excited talk | 24 |
| Brimming with activity | 22 |
| "Rock-___ Baby" | 25 |
| "Rock-__ Baby" | 24 |
| It's immeasurably deep | 26 |
| Vast chasm, to the Bard | 23 |
| Deep cavity, poetically | 23 |
| Bottomless pit (archaic) | 24 |
| Unable to get much worse | 24 |
| Bottomless pits (var.) | 22 |
| Unfathomable cavity, e.g. | 25 |
| Hardly a miniature gulf | 23 |
| "Paradise Lost" pit | 29 |
| Tartarus, in Greek myth | 23 |
| Nietzsche said it stares back | 29 |
| Metal band Knights of the ___ | 29 |
| Hell, with "the" | 26 |
| Bottomless gulf or pit | 22 |
| 1989 sci-fi film with The | 29 |
| In this location: Span. | 23 |
| Code breakers' org. | 23 |
| Something to hail or call | 25 |
| Words after call or hail | 24 |
| Hail -- (cry 'Taxi!') | 29 |
| Hail __ (flag down a taxi) | 26 |
| Gum arabic-yielding tree | 24 |
| Golden wattle, for one | 22 |
| Yellow-flowering shrub | 22 |
| Tree of the mimosa family | 25 |
| Tree yielding gum arabic | 24 |
| Tree that yields gum arabic | 27 |
| Tree in a giraffe's diet | 28 |
| Plant of the mimosa family | 26 |
| Member of the mimosa family | 27 |
| Landscaper's shrub | 22 |
| Yellow-flowered shrubs | 22 |
| Trees favored by giraffes | 25 |
| Trees of the mimosa family | 26 |
| Trees in giraffe diets | 22 |
| These yield gum arabic | 22 |
| Knobthorns and wattle trees | 27 |
| Biblical incense sources | 24 |
| West Point, e.g.: Abbr. | 23 |
| Part of U.S.N.A.: Abbr. | 23 |
| Plebe's place: Abbr. | 24 |
| Place of learning: Abbr. | 24 |
| Part of A.M.P.A.S.: Abbr. | 25 |
| Military training inst. | 23 |
| Whence an ens. graduates | 24 |
| Sch. known for its discipline | 29 |
| Sch. for police recruits | 24 |
| Part of U.S.M.A.: Abbr. | 23 |
| Military sch., perhaps | 22 |
| Middy's sch., e.g. | 22 |
| Middy's place: Abbr. | 24 |
| Hogwarts, e.g. (abbr.) | 22 |
| French or Royal: Abbr. | 22 |
| Andover or Exeter: Abbr. | 24 |
| University environment | 22 |
| Scholastic environment | 22 |
| The university community | 24 |
| Professors' environs | 24 |
| Locale of the halls of ivy | 26 |
| Grove in which Plato taught | 27 |
| Egghead's environs | 22 |
| Professor's milieu | 22 |
| The educational community | 25 |
| Publish-or-perish milieu | 24 |
| It's not the real world | 27 |
| University professor, for one | 29 |
| Not affecting the outcome | 25 |
| Like the scholarly world | 24 |