| Low-grade liquor |
| Relating to grades 1 to 12, briefly |
| Grade school basics |
| Grades K-6 (Abbr.) |
| Subpar grades |
| Marginal grade |
| Great grade |
| Jealousy |
| Adequate grades |
| Lousy ham |
| Average conduct grade |
| Almost failing grade |
| Poor grades |
| Almost perfect, gradewise |
| Above-average grade, or alternate title for the puzzle |
| A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a ___ forever" (Garrison Keillor) |
| Abysmal grades |
| Better-than-middling grade |
| Degrades |
| Almost-failing grades |
| All-grade |
| Sch. for the lower grades |
| Slightly better than average grade |
| Lousy grade |
| Fourth-rate grades. |
| Dreaded areas for grade-school nerds |
| Middling grades |
| Unenviable grades |
| Lousy kids' game? |
| Prefix with grade or cede |