| Diagnostic school exam | 22 |
| Course requisite, at times | 26 |
| Class warmup before a big exam | 30 |
| Teacher's diagnostic tool | 29 |
| Practice quiz | 13 |
| Practice exam | 13 |
| It can tell you how you're doing in class, pressure free | 60 |
| Do market research | 18 |
| Course admission requirement, perhaps | 37 |
| Class warm-up | 13 |
| Check prior to a product's sale | 35 |
| Advance trial | 13 |
| Advance sampling | 16 |
| Academic warm-up | 16 |
| Stalking-horse | 14 |
| Ostensible reason | 17 |
| False reason | 12 |
| Stated motive | 13 |
| It's not the real reason | 28 |
| Fictitious reason | 17 |
| Concocted reason | 16 |
| Alleged purpose | 15 |
| "I'm staying in to wash my hair," perhaps | 55 |
| Ancient Roman magistrate (Var.) | 31 |
| Roman magistrate below a consul (Var.) | 38 |
| Roman magistrate below a consul | 31 |
| Transvaal capital | 17 |
| South African city | 18 |
| Transvaal's capital | 23 |
| Transvaal Museum setting | 24 |
| South African metropolis | 24 |
| South Africa's administrative capital | 41 |
| One of South Africa's capitals, also know as the Jacaranda City | 67 |
| One of South Africa's capitals | 34 |
| Objective of a noted march | 26 |
| Mandela's capital | 21 |
| City in the Transvaal, once | 27 |
| A South African capital | 23 |
| Like a looker | 13 |
| Way of sitting | 14 |
| Like a woman in a Roy Orbison classic | 37 |
| Fairly | 6 |
| Pleasant to look at | 19 |
| Like Orbison's woman | 24 |
| Like many a model | 17 |
| Adjective in a Julia Roberts film title | 39 |
| Word with penny or poison | 25 |
| What girls in music videos are | 30 |
| Rita Ora song "Stay ___" | 34 |
| Nine Inch Nails "___ Hate Machine" | 44 |
| Like the woman in a Roy Orbison classic | 39 |
| Like Orbison's "Woman" | 36 |
| Like Orbison's ''Woman'' | 44 |
| Like a cover girl | 17 |
| Good to look at | 15 |
| Adrian Belew "___ Pink Rose" | 38 |
| A kind of pass | 14 |
| "--- Woman" (role for Roberts) | 40 |
| "___ Boy Floyd," 1960 film | 36 |
| "___ Baby," 1916 song | 31 |
| Hefty chunk of change | 21 |
| Tidy sum, slangily | 18 |
| Precious coin? | 14 |
| Considerable sum of money | 25 |
| Considerable sum | 16 |
| Considerable bit of money | 25 |
| Chunk of change | 15 |
| Quite small-minded? | 19 |
| Snack food | 10 |
| Chip alternative | 16 |
| Twisted snack | 13 |
| Stick in the cupboard, maybe | 28 |
| Knotty snack | 12 |
| Knotted nosh | 12 |
| Knot for human consumption? | 27 |
| Contortionist's inspiration? | 32 |
| Snack served with beer | 22 |
| Item #5 | 7 |
| Cocktail snacks | 15 |
| Beer go-with | 12 |
| Bar tidbits | 11 |
| Before: Abbr. | 13 |
| Earlier: Abbr. | 14 |
| Prior: abbr. | 12 |
| Earlier, for short | 18 |
| Beforehand: Abbr. | 17 |
| Triumph | 7 |
| Come out on top | 15 |
| Carry the day | 13 |
| Win out | 7 |
| Have your way | 13 |
| Be the victor | 13 |
| Triumph (over) | 14 |
| The rule | 8 |
| Antebellum | 10 |
| From the 1930's | 19 |
| Period prior to 1941, in the U.S. | 33 |
| Period before hostilities | 25 |
| Like the '30s, say | 22 |
| Like 1930s prices | 17 |