| HEADTOHEAD | Approach followed by top teacher in direct meeting (4-2-4) |
| HEADLINED | Top teacher in row featured prominently in newspaper? |
| LONGJUMPER | Marathon followed by top athlete (4,6) |
| GOAHEAD | Advance made in part of India by top teacher (2,5) |
| HEADACHE | Problem identified by top teacher, a revolutionary |
| PASTA | Course in Italian history followed by top academic stream |
| HEADMASTER | Top teacher had prepared stream tackling English (10) |
| DUNDERHEAD | Department's leader reporting to top teacher, an idiot (10) |
| FACETOFACE | Adjacent profiles in direct confrontation (4,2,4) |
| KEEPWICKET | Field in direct line of castle gate (4,6) |
| GARGANTUAN | Word, in direct reference to a grotesque gormandising giant imagined by Francois Rabelais, for anything colossal, enormous, humongous, prodigious or vast (10) |
| EYECONTACT | I reportedly touch in direct look between two (3,7) |
| NOSETONOSE | In direct contact |
| GOTOETOTOE | Be in direct competition |
| PITAGAINST | Set in direct opposition to |
| BRAYHEAD | It's comes from the horse's mouth - top teacher is in Wicklow (4,4) |
| AHEADOFONESTIME | A top teacher coming from Eton's changed: "I'm English and progressive" (5,2,4,4) |
| SHAKEONESHEAD | Signal refusal - give one's top teacher a shock! (5,4,4) |
| HEARKENED | Top teacher engaging boy in Religious Education will get listened to |
| AHEAD | In the forefront as a top teacher (5) |
