| Vines |
| Plants |
| Climbers |
| Creepers |
| Some vines |
| Brown group |
| Elite octet |
| Yale et al. |
| Penn et al. |
| Arbor growth |
| Brown et al. |
| Wall climbers |
| Brown's group |
| Slow climbers |
| Some climbers |
| Arbor growths |
| Wall creepers |
| Climbing vines |
| Academic octet |
| Brown climbers |
| Climbing flora |
| Elite colleges |
| Green climbers |
| Yale and Brown |
| Crawling vines |
| Clinging vines |
| Brown and Yale |
| Climbing plants |
| Northeast octet |
| Columbia et al. |
| Creeping plants |
| Campus climbers |
| Penn and others |
| College climbers |
| Columbia's group |
| Creeping foliage |
| Harvard climbers |
| Some are English |
| Wrigley creepers |
| Outdoor climbers |
| Brown and others |
| Prestigious octet |
| Boston and poison |
| Brown, Penn, etc. |
| Brown, Yale, etc. |
| Building climbers |
| Climbing creepers |
| Educational octet |
| Campus greeneries |
| Yale, Brown, etc. |
| Northeastern octet |
| Penn and Princeton |
| Yale and Princeton |
| Princeton and Yale |
| They adorn Wrigley |
| Columbia and others |
| Conference of eight |
| Prestigious schools |
| Wall-climbing vines |
| Brown and its rivals |
| Brown is one of them |
| Harvard, Yale et al. |
| High-tuition schools |
| Slow climbing plants |
| They climb the walls |
| Wall-climbing plants |
| College wall climbers |
| College-hall climbers |
| Columbia and the like |
| Creepers on a trellis |
| Dartmouth, Yale, etc. |
| Wallflower producers? |
| Brown, Dartmouth, etc. |
| Wrigley Field features |
| Harvard and Yale, e.g. |
| Seven Sisters "brothers |
| Collegiate wall creepers |
| Prestigious school group |
| Hard-to-get-into schools |
| Prestigious institutions |
| Brown and Cornell, for two |
| Yale and Brown, informally |
| Yale and Columbia, for two |
| Harvard, Yale, Brown, etc. |
| Columbia and Cornell, e.g. |
| Boston and Kenilworth, e.g. |
| Climbers on campus, perhaps |
| Kenilworth and Boston, e.g. |
| Selective U.S. universities |
| Prestigious university octet |
| Cornell and Columbia, for two |
| Members of an exclusive league |
| They may be climbing the walls |
| Harvard, Brown, Princeton, etc. |
| Prestigious schools, informally |
| Where the smartest rockers went |
| Wrigley Field homers clear them |
| Harvard, Yale, Princeton, et al. |
| Some expensive, exclusive schools |
| Climbing plants with evergreen leaves |
| They climb the walls at some colleges |
| Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc., for short |
| With "the," this puzzle's eight teams' homes |
| Public ___ (group that includes William & Mary) |