Referring Clues

• Exam
• Driver's license prerequisite
• Midterm, e.g.
• Midterm, say
• Cross-check
• Feeler
• Toe in the water
• Experiment
• Trial balloon
• Kind of pilot
• Dry run
• Try
• Dip one's toe in, say
• Checkup
• Check
• Consumer Reports report
• Litmus is one kind
• Probation
• Entrance requirement, maybe
• With 24-Down, self-diagnosis aids
• School administration
• Audition
• New driver's hurdle
• See 32-Down
• Battery component
• Makeup, e.g.
• Reason to cram
• Kind of case
• Step in getting a license
• Cause of a class struggle?
• Sampling
• Word after high or road
• Probe
• Try out
• Flash cards may prepare you for one
• Run up the flagpole
• The "T" of S.A.T.
• Put out a feeler, maybe
• Crammer's concern
• Putting a toe in the water, say
• See 36-Down
• Try, as something new
• Quiz
• Clinical study
• An essay may be on one
• Battery part
• See 1-Down
• Put to the proof
• License prerequisite, often
• Word before paper or pattern
• Conduct an audition
• Word before pattern or pilot
• Word after road or hearing
• Bit of lab work
• Final or midterm
• Pop quiz, for one
• Assay
• Lab procedure
• Examination
• A ___ of wills
• Midterm, for one
• Word after blood or beta
• Final, e.g.
• Student's hurdle
• Class struggle?
• SAT part
• Tryout
• The "T" in SAT
• Cram session cause
• Midterm or final
• Do lab work on
• Grade recipient
• Word that can follow the first word of 17-Across, 65-Across, 11-Down, and 30-Down
• Cramming cause
• Graded item
• Check-up
• Try on for size
• Exam "filled in" by three answers in this puzzle
• Take out for a drive
• Trial
• Put a toe in the water
• Makeup, maybe
• Class act?
• MCAT part
• Final grade factor
• Licensing prerequisite, often
• Means of determining proficiency
• Eye ___
• Cricket match
• Try to prove
• Word with scratch and smell
• With 34-Down, glass container in a lab
• See 15-Across
• Rorschach offering
• See 49-Across
• Word after scratch or before match
• Reason for class struggle?
• Push to the limit
• LSAT part
• Driving need?
• Sample
• Give-and-take school activity?
• Teacher's handout
• Part of 57-Down
• Final, for one
• Surprise quiz found in the eight longest puzzle answers
• Acid follower
• Student grade factor
• True-false, for one
• Do lab work
• Check for quality
• Trial run
• Experiment with
• Student's ordeal
• Examine
• Evaluation
• One held for questioning
• Take a sample of
• Check out
• Critical evaluation
• Put through the paces
• "1-2-3, 1-2-3," e.g.
• Word at a mike check
• Unprepared student's dread
• Campus concern
• Makeup, for one
• Academic evaluation
• Set of problems
• Run-through
• Beta version, e.g.
• Type of tube
• Kind of pattern
• Type of pilot
• Brave type of pilot
• Measure of skill
• Sound engineer's word
• Run up the flagpole, e.g.
• Reason for a cram session
• Litmus ___
• It might make a pupil shrink
• Word with "pattern" or "run"
• Microphone word
• Word with "road" or "screen"
• Word with "road" or "hearing"
• Eye or blood, e.g.
• Measure of knowledge
• Put out a feeler
• Word with driving or rabbit
• Word with pattern or drive
• Placement determinant, often
• Put under pressure
• Shakedown cruise, e.g.
• Proof preceder
• Touchstone
• Class struggle
• Word with road or acid
• Entrance requirement, sometimes
• Kick the tires
• Word with tube or paper
• Final, maybe
• Classroom event
• Problems at school?
• Tax
• Grade determiner, often
• Mike holder's opening, often
• Grade factor
• ___ paper
• Set of questions
• What a student crams for
• Class grade factor
• Quiz or exam
• End-of-semester ritual
• Part of SAT
• ___-drive
• "1-2-3, 1-2-3," e.g.
• Memory challenge
• Evaluation method
• Lab work
• Assessment
• It may include an essay
• Factor in a class grade
• Focus of a class action?
• Mental workout
• Word after beta or blood
• Criterion
• Give a whirl
• It's needed to make the grade
• Testing
• ___-drive
• Not an actual alert
• Reason to say "1, 2, 3..."
• Word after scratch or screen
• Kind of pattern or pilot
• Lab act
• It's often taken in silence
• Word after beta or acid
• Drill
• Occasion for a blue book
• Something to study for
• Type of tube or case
• Put through a trial
• Final, say
• Word before "pattern" or "pilot"
• Examine, as pupils
• Reason for cramming
• Cram-session cause
• End-of-semester stress source
• SAT, for one
• Feeler
• Ordeal
• Midterm event
• Lab event
• Evaluate
• Graded thing
• See 91-Down
• Oral, e.g.
• See 17-Down
• See 56-Across
• It has a lot of problems
• It's bigger than a quiz
• Check, as brakes
• Determinant
• Student's stressor
• Quiz, e.g.
• Course finale
• Course finale
• School event
• Essay ___
• No Child Left Behind requirement
• Lab job
• LSAT component
• Hurdle of sorts
• Kind of pilot or case
• It may be standardized
• DNA ___ (paternity case evidence)
• Placement determiner
• Common college admission requirement
• It might have a lot of problems
• Set of questions, say
• Assay, say
• Skills evaluation
• Multiple choice
• It's usually graded
• It's sure to give you problems
• Word after screen or blood
• Classroom anxiety producer
• Crammer's worry
• Put to the ___
• Beta version
• Pageant, e.g.
• Myers-Briggs, e.g.
• Challenge
• It's held for questioning
• Type of pattern or pilot
• It's got problems
• Analyze
• Word with tube or pattern
• Course obstacle?
• Kind of tube or pilot
• ___ pilot
• Diagnostic aid
• Another hurdle in school
• Take a screen ___
• ___ drive
• Kind of case or pilot
• Prelude to a license
• International cricket match
• Word repeated by a roadie into a microphone
• Makeup or screen, e.g.
• Screen ___
• What a student studies for
• Screen-
• "Don Adam's Screen ___"
• Trial by fire
• It might include problems
• School final
• ___ the waters
• Road ___
• Teacher's makeup?
• Measuring device
• Student's worry
• Skill evaluation
• See 72-Down
• School exam
• Word after screen or scratch
• School handout
• ___ tube
• Follower of alpha and beta
• 26-Down, e.g.
• ___ case
• Big quiz
• A crucible is a hard one
• School barometer
• Student's trial
• Battery part in psychology
• Audition, for instance
• Part of LSAT
• Pop quiz, say
• School administration?
• Hurdle for a wannabe driver
• Class evaluation
• Academic ordeal
• With 11-Down, risk-taking aviator
• After acid or field
• Common Core hurdle
• Litmus, for one
• Pop quiz, e.g.
• License prerequisite, perhaps
• Cause of cramming
• It can make the grade
• See 19-Down
• Acid ___
• Standardized thing
• Standardized_____
• See 80-Across
• Word with acid or field
• Word with road or blood
• One may be taken on the road
• Quiz relative
• Word with "taste" or "litmus"
• Word following road or screen
• Experimenter's procedure
• Reason to pull an all-nighter
• Common Core component
• Say, "1-2-3, 1-2-3"
• Kind of tube or pattern
• Academic challenge
• Stressful high school event
• Word repeated during a mic check
• Chem lab procedure
• Analysis
• Acid or screen follower
• Cram session reason
• Try some private study
• Experiment with cricket match
• It makes the grade?
• Thing to study for
• Word after standardized or stress
• Little exam
• Blood work, e.g.
• Crash ___ Dummies
• Brad Roberts band Crash ___ Dummies
• Record company "look-see" market
• Recital, perhaps
• Beastie Boys "Just a ___"
• "The Ghosts That Haunt Me" Crash ___ Dummies
• Soundcheck, for one
• Berklee midterm
• Rush "___ for Echo"
• Crash ___ Dummies "A Worm's Life"
• "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" Crash ___ Dummies
• Sound check
• Music TV show "The Old Grey Whistle ___"
• Assess - examination
• Try the strength of a piece of white string
• Trial game?
• See 15
• Put a strain on
• Paper match
• Inspect and put back casual shirt
• Research chore
• Class ordeal hidden in five Across answers
• Trial held during Mao Tse Tung's revolution
• Glass vessel, river vessel close to shore
• See 21
• Examine part of white strip
• A lot of pupils turned up on time for examination
• Course final, for one
• Lab activity
• Taste, for one
• Word with "eye" or "taste"
• Critical evaluation of knowledge
• Class ordeal
• T / F sheet
• Binet-Simon, for one
• "This is only a ___"
• One of many taken in school
• River that's between two countries, such as India and Pakistan
• Two thirds fly back for exam
• See 2
• Check tax
• International trial
• Time fixed up for experiment
• See 22
• See 16
• International meeting set up on time
• Member of Air Force One featured in international story
• Experimental
• Citizenship prerequisite
• Word with "drive"
• Exam kin
• A trying setback with the right conclusion
• Exam that can follow the last word of each starred answer
• Class struggle?
• Crash ___ dummy
• Word that can follow "acid" or "paternity"
• Litmus or Rorschach
• Word repeated while tapping a microphone
• Explore
• One may be open-book
• Crash ___
• School trial
• Check for usefulness
• Schoolkid's undertaking
• Grade factor, often
• School trial?
• Something to pass
• School undertaking
• Midterm or final exam
• Word with "blood" or "math"
• Proficiency determiner
• Pre-employment prerequisite, perhaps
• Proctored event
• Course conclusion, often
• Put through a trial run
• Beta ___
• Part of a "Jeopardy!" audition
• Try out, experiment
• Reason to 30-Across
• Conduct a trial of
• Midterm, for instance
• Sound-check word
• Research task
• 22-Across part
• Certain cricket match
• See 37-Down
• Cause of class struggle?
• Prove
• Market research activity
• A match of the greatest interest
• Try out, as a product
• Midterm, maybe
• ___ kitchen (place to develop dishes)
• Try out -
• Word with acid or blood
• Obstacle to overcome
• Teacher's creation
• Run a beta, say
• Student's bane
• Teacher's writing assignment?
• Classroom challenge
• See 18-Across
• Beta follower
• Give a quiz to
• Class act?
• Reason to study
• Word with sniff or taste
• Obstacle for a new driver?
• Word after "personality" or "taste"
• One may be multiple-choice
• School challenge
• [Is this thing on?]
• Cause of student stress
• Try to finish fast after a setback
• Statistical procedure
• Word repeated before "1, 2, 3"
• Word after "taste" or "Turing"
• Education evaluation
• Assessment device
• Dip a toe in, say
• Pop quiz
• Give an exam to
• Experiment or exam
• Word after "litmus" or "lab"
• Measure of proficiency
• Final
• Word before "drive" or "pilot"
• Review session focus
• Rorschach, for one
• What you may take before a break
• Classroom assessment
• Pop quiz, for example
• Word after "aptitude" or "Bechdel"
• What may make the grade
• Drill, for instance
• Performance check
• Assessment in school
• Multiple-choice ___
• Quiz times two
• Word with run or drive
• Word after "litmus" or "DNA"
• Bar exam, e.g.
• What quizzes lead up to
• The SAT is one
• It can reveal what you really know
• Source of class struggle?
• The MCAT is one
• A negative one might be positive
• Event that may be proctored
• Bechdel ___
• What drivers do to cars at Car and Driver
• A trial of innate strength
• School hurdle
• Midterm, for example
• Try the patience of
• Something to cram for
• Trial game?
• Word after "taste" or "litmus"
• Screen, in a way
• It might be standardized
• Skills assessment
• Common subject of a stress dream
• Worth more than a quiz
• "Let's put it to the ___"
• Do a PCR
• Word before "drive" or "tube"
• Quizzes big brother
• Longer than a quiz
• Final exam, for example
• Thing bigger than a quiz
• The "T" in 15-Down
• The "T" of PSAT
• The "T" of 57-Down
• Reason to hit the books
• End-of-unit classroom event
• LSAT section?
• MMPI or GRE
• Assessment that may end with "Pencils down"
• Rorschach ___
• Doctor's order
• Mini-exam
• Bechdel ___ (film representation metric)
• One might be multiple choice
• Try, as patience
• Word before tube or drive
• ___ cricket
• Word with stress, or a common source of stress
• Word repeated while trying out a microphone
• End-of-unit check
• Word repeated into a mic
• Take for a spin, perhaps
• Aptitude ___