| POSTDOCTORAL | Who, perhaps, entering by correspondence is after a second degree? |
| SCAPEGOAT | The whipping boy, a kid perhaps, is after a second cloak (9) |
| ULOAFIRESTEP | A second degree restricts one ultimately - one doesn't have much of a life! |
| POSTDOC | One researching beyond a second degree |
| ASSURED | Confident certainly when engaged in a second degree (7) |
| GRADUATESTUDENT | One seeking a second degree |
| FINDTHELADY | A trick in Who's Who, perhaps (4,3,4) |
| POSTGRADUATE | One who qualified by correspondence course? (12) |
| PEN | One maintaining a friendship by correspondence (3,3) |
| PAL | One maintaining a friendship by correspondence (3,3) |
| POSTGRADUATES | Those who have already qualified by correspondence course? (13) |
| NOVELETTE | Written work takes half a month and then correspondence is incomplete (9) |
| BLACKMAIL | Gloomy correspondence is a crime (9) |
| ASSONANCE | Poet's correspondence is behind in the matter of a new church (9) |
| WINNINGPOST | Persuasive correspondence is a sign of success (7-4) |
| QUADRIC | A curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree. |
| AMOEBA | A graduate securing second degree ultimately is simple creature (6) |
| SPECIFIC | Pertwee's limits in Dr Who, perhaps: a touch of class well defined (8) |
| RELATIVEPRONOUN | Who perhaps is in favour of supporting family member, with sister receiving nothing? |
| ROCKOPERA | Presentation by The Who perhaps better suited to The Stones? |
