| ELIS | Staff of the Yale Daily News, e.g. |
| PAPER | The Times or the Daily News, e.g. |
| TABLOID | New York's Daily News, e.g. |
| BOOLA | Half of the Yale fight song |
| CREWCUT | Very short haircut for men and boys originally worn by members of the Yale rowing team (4,3) |
| WILLIAMFBUCKLEY | "My own analysis of the Yale situation is that the invitation to Mrs. Clinton is not a casus belli." |
| ELI | Yale Daily News staffer |
| EALE | What is the Latin name of the mythical European beast, the yale, a goat-like creature with large horns seen over the gateways of Christ's College, Cambridge? (4) |
| LYNCH | Liam ___ was Chief of Staff of the antitreaty IRA for much of the Civil War. (5) |
| EGGTIMERS | They act as reminders to the kitchen staff of the early bird and the ones that tend to go off? (3,6) |
| DUNLAP | Last Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force |
| NOAMCHOMSKY | American linguist, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer who joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 |
| MASTERMARINER | One on the staff of the Naval College? (6-7) |
| MARSHALL | George, chief of staff of the US army 1939-45 (8) |
| ANIL | Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Armed Forces |
| SUMMARY | Condensed version (of the news, eg) (7) |
| UPDATING | Putting in the latest information: -- the news, eg |
| ABRAMS | Creighton, general and Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 to 1974 (6) |
| CREW | Staff of the craft |
| MAST | Staff of the Atlantic? |
