- IVIES
- Set of schools that some students might be working on early admission applications for right now
- Covers with creepers
- Collegiate octad
- Rough equivalents to the Oxbridge schools, in the U.S.
- Penn and others
- Prestigious schools, colloquially
- Seven Sisters "brothers"
- Wall-climbing plants
- Brown et al.
- Climbers
- Green climbers
- Creeping plants
- Wall climbers
- Prestigious colleges
- Cornell and Columbia, for two
- With "the," this puzzle's eight teams' homes
- Smart set?
- Harvard, Yale, Brown, etc.
- Wall coverings
- Yale wall climbers
- Prestigious schools, informally
- Climbing plants
- Harvard and Yale, e.g.
- High-tuition schools
- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, et al.
- Slow climbing plants
- College wall climbers
- Building climbers
- Columbia and Cornell, e.g.
- Brown and Yale
- Yale and Princeton
- Wall-climbing vines
- They climb the walls
- Campus climbers
- Dartmouth and Princeton, slangily
- Spreading plants
- Brown and others
- Yale et al.
- Harvard and Yale
- Prestigious university octet
- Elite octet
- Prestigious octet
- Wrigley Field features
- Columbia et al.
- Penn et al.
- Brown is one of them
- Members of an exclusive league
- Yale and Penn
- Academia's "Ancient Eight"
- Cornell, Penn, etc.
- Northeastern octet
- Penn pals?
- Schools that don't play in bowl games
- Some vines
- Arbor growth
- Clinging vines
- Outdoor climbers
- They may climb the walls
- Brown, Yale, etc.
- Some poison plants
- Brown, Penn, etc.
- Trellis climbers
- They may be climbing the walls
- Prestigious institutions
- Climbing vines
- Wall creepers
- Educational octet
- Prestigious schools
- Creeping foliage
- Brown and its rivals
- Conference of eight
- Collegiate octet, familiarly
- Dartmouth, Yale, etc.
- They're in a league of their own
- Brown group
- Columbia and others
- Clinging vine.
- English plants.
- Creepers.
- House plants.
- Plants.
- Campus plants.
- College plants.
- Vines.
- Campus greens.
- Ground covers.
- Boston and poison
- Plants on college halls.
- Yale and Brown
- College-hall climbers
- Climbers on campus, perhaps
- Climbing creepers
- Harvard climbers
- Campus greeneries
- Harvard, Brown, Princeton, etc.
- Boston and Kenilworth, e.g.
- Kenilworth and Boston, e.g.
- Slow climbers
- Some are English
- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc., for short
- Wallflower producers?
- Brown's group
- Brown, Dartmouth, etc.
- Columbia and the like
- Princeton and Yale
- Northeast octet
- Prestigious school group
- Elite eight
- Frequently ranked octet
- Vines on some walls
- Dartmouth and Penn, e.g.
- Selective U.S. universities
- Where the smartest rockers went
- Leafy climbers
- Harvard and Yale, for two
- They adorn Wrigley
- Yale, Brown, etc.
- Brown climbers?
- They climb the walls at some colleges?
- Hard-to-get-into schools
- Wrigley Field homers clear them
- Yale and Columbia, for two
- Octet of elite colleges
- Elite group of colleges
- Northeastern school octet
- Penn and Yale
- Harvard and Brown
- Cornell and Yale, e.g.
- Wrigley climbers
- Arbor growths
- Crawling vines
- Harvard, Yale et al.
- Cornell, Columbia et al.
- Some ground-cover plants
- Yale, Cornell, etc.
- Dartmouth and Cornell, e.g.
- Harvard and Brown, e.g.
- Yale, Harvard, etc.
- Leafy creepers
- Penn's group
- Elite schools
- Some climbers
- Octet of elite schools
- Columbia and Cornell, for two
