| Blue-book filler, perhaps | 25 |
| Addison and Steele piece | 24 |
| "Tatler" offering | 27 |
| Gave it the old college try? | 28 |
| Writer like Agnes Repplier | 26 |
| Agnes Repplier was one | 22 |
| High-school compositions | 24 |
| Exam answers in blue books | 26 |
| Some homework assignments | 25 |
| Some class assignments | 22 |
| Parts of college applications | 29 |
| College application pieces | 26 |
| College application parts | 25 |
| Some extended arguments | 23 |
| Some collegiate output | 22 |
| School writing assignments | 26 |
| Pieces by Thomas Paine | 22 |
| National Review pieces | 22 |
| Much H. L. Mencken output | 25 |
| Lazy student's downloads | 28 |
| Lamb and Bacon products | 23 |
| High school compositions | 24 |
| English class assignments | 25 |
| Edmund Wilson's forte | 25 |
| Cheater's downloads | 23 |
| Belles-lettres, perhaps | 23 |
| What cribs might be used for | 28 |
| They require discussions | 24 |
| School administrations | 22 |
| Start of N.C.'s motto | 25 |
| "To be," to Brutus | 28 |
| Latin "to be" | 23 |
| Caesar's existence | 22 |
| ___ quam videri (N.C. motto) | 28 |
| In ___ (actually existing) | 26 |
| De bene ___ (legal phrase) | 26 |
| Being, in Caesar's Rome | 27 |
| Start of the N.C. motto | 23 |
| Being, to a philosopher | 23 |
| To be, in ancient Rome | 22 |
| Latin for "to be" | 27 |
| In ___ (intrinsically) | 22 |
| Being, in ancient Rome | 22 |
| Palindromic Latin infinitive | 28 |
| De bene __: provisionally | 25 |
| "To be," for Caesar | 29 |
| "In ___" (actually) | 29 |
| "___ est percipi" | 27 |
| Palindromic Latin 101 word | 26 |
| North Carolina motto starter | 28 |
| Existence, in philosophy | 24 |
| Existence in Latin class | 24 |
| De bene ___ (provisionally) | 27 |
| Cato's "to be" | 28 |
| Basic Latin infinitive | 22 |
| To be in ancient times? | 23 |
| To be at the Colosseum | 22 |
| The better part of Jesse | 24 |
| Tar Heel State motto starter | 28 |
| Start of Tarheel's motto | 28 |
| Start of motto of N.C. | 22 |
| Roman "being" | 23 |
| Palindromic Latin verb | 22 |
| Oh, to be in ancient Rome! | 26 |
| Nero's "to be" | 28 |
| Nero's "being" | 28 |
| Livy's 'to be' | 26 |
| In -- (really existing) | 23 |
| First word of N. C. motto | 25 |
| Existentialist concern | 22 |
| Existence, to Claudius | 22 |
| De bene ___(conditionally) | 26 |
| De bene ___ (conditionally) | 27 |
| Common crossword palindrome | 27 |
| Cicero's existence | 22 |
| Being for Caesar or Brutus | 26 |
| Basic verb for Vergilius | 24 |
| "To be," to Cicero | 28 |
| "To be," to Caesar | 28 |
| "To be," in Latin | 27 |
| "To be," for Brutus | 29 |
| "___ quam videri" | 27 |
| 'To be,' to Tiberius | 28 |
| German industrial city | 22 |
| Big Bertha's birthplace | 27 |
| City near Düsseldorf | 23 |
| Industrial city of Germany | 26 |
| German industrial center | 24 |
| City in the Ruhr valley | 23 |
| Birthplace of Big Bertha | 24 |
| German city on the Ruhr | 23 |
| Site of the Krupp works | 23 |
| Ruhr industrial center | 22 |
| Where Big Bertha was built | 26 |
| Ruhr River valley city | 22 |
| Museum Folkwang locale | 22 |
| City of the Ruhr River Valley | 29 |
| Chief city of the Ruhr valley | 29 |
| Ruhr Valley industrial city | 27 |
| Large city of the Ruhr valley | 29 |