| FIELDOFSTUDY | Agriculture as a subject of study, for example (5,2,5) |
| POTASH | An alkaline compound used in agriculture as a fertiliser (6) |
| SENSIBILITY | Reforming Sybil ties in as a subject of English novel |
| AROSE | Came up, as a subject of conversation |
| AREA | The extent or measurement of a two-dimensional surface; a subject of study; or, locality (4) |
| FIELD | A subject of study (5) |
| BEEATTITUDES | Subject of study for an insect psychologist? |
| RIPVANWINKLE | Who, in a story by Washington Irving, went to sleep a subject of George III and woke much later as a citizen of the United States? (3,3,6) |
| ANAT | Subject of study for a med student |
| AGING | Subject of study for a gerontologist |
| APE | Subject of study for Jane Goodall |
| ATOM | Subject of study for Ernest Rutherford |
| ORES | Subjects of study for a metallurgist |
| STRINGTHEORY | Field of study for TV physicist Sheldon Cooper |
| ELBOWROOM | Joint study, for example, giving scope for expansion (5-4) |
| OVOLI | Facetious term for a science or subject of study, especially one with a name ending in the word at issue (5) |
| NATURALHISTORY | Ruth and Ian Taylor's random plant study for example (7,7) |
| ROOM | Study, for example, around Othello (4) |
| CLASSICS | Ancient Greek and Roman culture considered as a subject for academic study (8) |
| SUBJECT | A department of study for a citizen (7) |
