| SCHOOLTIE | Clothing symbol for a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge |
| CANTAB | Colloquialism for a graduate of Cambridge University (6) |
| OXONIAN | An inhabitant, student or graduate of Oxford (7) |
| REDBRICK | Word used to denote an English university constructed from new clay or terracotta flettons, in contrast to the old stone of Oxford or Cambridge (8) |
| TRINITYCOLLEGE | Part of Oxford or Cambridge universities |
| ORIEL | One of the colleges of the University of Oxford; or, a type of bay window (5) |
| ALUMNUS | A graduate of a particular school |
| ALUMNA | A graduate of, for example, Bryn Mawr |
| OAK | One of the fagaceous arbors forming a quercetum; its leaves, worn as a garland; something made from its wood, such as a heavy outer door to a college at Oxford or Cambridge; or, the brown colour of sa |
| DIORAMA | Scene designer, a graduate of the arts faculty? |
| RUMBA | Drink to a graduate of dance (5) |
| BACON | It's rasher for a graduate to take on a Tory (5) |
| ABASHING | How embarrassing for a graduate to climb up Galway head (8) |
| BASINFUL | More than enough for a graduate - wicked! |
| ORALS | Hurdle for a graduate degree, maybe |
| THESIS | Culminating work for a graduate student |
| GOWN | Leave two ways for a graduate to wear it (4) |
| EDU | Email address ending for a graduate student |
| MASTERFUL | No need for a graduate's tearful text to be expertly rendered (9) |
| BUMP | A collision in a type of rowing race contested between Oxford or Cambridge college boat clubs (4) |
