| Fighting ___ (college team) | 27 |
| Big Ten's Fighting ____ | 27 |
| Amtrak train line out of Chicago | 32 |
| 2008 Rose Bowl team | 19 |
| "Fighting" collegiate team | 36 |
| "Fighting" college team | 33 |
| "Fighting" Big-10 team | 32 |
| "Fighting" athletes | 29 |
| 'Fighting' football team | 32 |
| Prairie State | 13 |
| Chicago's locale | 20 |
| Where the Big Muddy flows | 25 |
| Where Bears and Cubs play | 25 |
| The Prairie State | 17 |
| The Ohio River forms its southern border | 40 |
| Spoon River state | 17 |
| Land of Lincoln | 15 |
| Cicero's home | 17 |
| Champaign's here | 20 |
| Birthplace of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Michelle Obama | 55 |
| Algonquian Indian confederation | 31 |
| ___ Avenue (Monopoly property landed on the most) | 49 |
| Ronald Reagan, by birth | 23 |
| Untaught | 8 |
| Unable to read | 14 |
| One who signs with an X, perhaps | 32 |
| Nonreader | 9 |
| Having no education | 19 |
| Unwelcome, old-style | 20 |
| Health problem | 14 |
| Flu, e.g. | 9 |
| Reason for a note to the teacher | 32 |
| It's contracted | 19 |
| The flu, for one | 16 |
| Susan Sontag's "_____ as Metaphor" | 48 |
| Sick situation | 14 |
| Reason to miss work | 19 |
| It may leave you weak in the knees | 34 |
| Hypochondriac's preoccupation | 33 |
| Double L distress | 18 |
| Contracted thing | 16 |
| Absence justification | 21 |
| A cause of absenteeism | 22 |
| "No thanks" | 21 |
| "Not interested" | 26 |
| "Not my thing" | 24 |
| Treater's words | 19 |
| "It's on me" | 26 |
| Treater's remark | 20 |
| Treater's declaration | 25 |
| "Dinner's on me!" | 31 |
| Not really ready | 16 |
| Woes | 4 |
| Trials and tribulations | 23 |
| Miseries | 8 |
| Hardships | 9 |
| Ailments | 8 |
| Societal woes | 13 |
| Problems | 8 |
| Evils | 5 |
| Troubles and misfortunes | 24 |
| Woes, as of the world | 21 |
| Troubles or woes | 16 |
| Woes of the world | 17 |
| Sorry situations | 16 |
| Social problems | 15 |
| Pandora's box contents | 26 |
| Problems, problems | 18 |
| Pandora let them out | 20 |
| Escapees from a mythical box | 28 |
| Contents of Pandora's box, except for hope | 46 |
| "To hastening ___ a prey": Goldsmith | 46 |
| What Pandora unleashed | 22 |
| What Pandora let loose | 22 |
| Troubles in society | 19 |
| They're not good | 20 |
| Subjects of complaints | 22 |
| Society's woes | 18 |
| Society's problems | 22 |
| Societal troubles | 17 |
| Malaises | 8 |
| Escapees from Pandora | 21 |
| Economic and social misfortunes | 31 |
| What Pandora let out | 20 |
| War, famine, etc. | 17 |
| Unpleasant things | 17 |
| Unhappy happenings | 18 |
| Troubles of society | 19 |
| They're no good | 19 |
| They're all bad | 19 |
| Targets of social reform | 24 |
| Targets of remedies | 19 |
| Subject of therapy | 18 |
| Sources of suffering | 20 |
| Some are social | 15 |
| Sicknesses or hardships | 23 |
| Reform targets | 14 |
| Psychedelic experimental band Psychic ___ | 41 |
| Poverty, pollution, and such | 28 |
| Poverty, pollution and such | 27 |