| SCHOLAR | An academic who is learned in a branch of study such as classics or the humanities (7) |
| POLYMATH | Person who is learned in many fields (8) |
| LATIN | Studied in classics or Literae humaniores, language in which works by Catullus, Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are written (5) |
| LIFESCIENCES | Branches of study such as biology or physiology (4,8) |
| HUMANITIES | Non-scientific subjects of study, such as literature and history |
| HERBARIUM | Collection of preserved and catalogued plants for scientific study, such as the one at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (9) |
| SCH | One who is learned (abbr.) |
| BOROUGH | Term used in a division, or in a branch, of local government (7) |
| ALGEBRA | A large barge was used in a branch of mathematics (7) |
| CANON | Rule in ecclesiastical matters; a principle applied in a branch of learning such as philosophy or art; a list of saints; or, the works of any author accepted as genuine (5) |
| OCULINA | Old copper left in a branch of Coral? (7) |
| MASSEUR | Expert in a branch of physiotherapy (7) |
| SCIENCE | Branch of study in scenic development around the East (7) |
| NATURAL | As one might expect, ecologists study such history (7) |
| REMORSE | "What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without ___ " Epictetus (7) |
| PROFESS | Academic who's abandoned or fake (7) |
| UNICORN | It's painful on campus having to study such mythology (7) |
| SUBJECT | Topic - branch of study - citizen (7) |
| POSTDOC | Academic who helps mend fences? (7) |
| ERUDITE | English game tied after struggle, it is learned |
