An Ivy Leaguer is someone who has attended or graduated from one of the eight prestigious universities in the United States that make up the Ivy League. These universities are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. The two crossword solutions, ELI and YALIE, refer to two of these universities: ELI stands for ELI, which is the nickname for Yale University, and YALIE is a combination of Yale and the suffix -ie, which is often used to denote someone associated with a particular place or thing.