| UNIVERSITY | An institution of higher learning with the power to grant degrees (10) |
| GRACES | Three sister goddesses who have the power to grant beauty, charm and happiness. (6) |
| LORELEI | Siren learning with the French individual (7) |
| MACON | Home of Wesleyan College, first college chartered to grant degrees for women |
| INONESGIFT | Nine so randomly present having power to grant things? (2,4,4) |
| UNH | Northeastern institution of higher learning (abbr.) |
| TAKEUPWITH | Become ally of Kuwait with the power to corrupt |
| UNIVERSITIES | Institutions of higher learning |
| APPRENTICE | Trainee programme opened up by Institution of Civil Engineers |
| PRINCETON | Fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded as the College of New Jersey in 1746 (9) |
| IVYLEAGUE | Group of eight private institutions of higher education in the north-eastern US that include Dartmouth College (3,6) |
| UNIVERSE | Place of learning with poetry for the whole of space (8) |
| WASP | Marvel superhero with the power to shrink, with "the" |
| GSU | Institution of higher education in Atlanta: Abbr. |
| COLLEGE | Institution of higher education |
| LAMBDATAU | Inst. of higher learning dedicated to the statistical analysis of young sheep? |
| UNION | Centre of learning with action applied to students' club |
| FOXGLOVES | With the power to cure but also to kill, scrophulariaceous flowers of woodlands, hedgerows, heaths and gardens whose Latin name Digitalis means "finger-hat" or "thimble" (9) |
| CENSOR | Official with the power to prohibit distribution of material (6) |
| ARBITER | Someone with the power to settle the matter (7) |
