| BERKELEY | Californian university located in the East Bay region and founded in 1868 (8) |
| OAKLANDPHASE | Period spent living in the East Bay area? |
| ALAMEDA | County in California's East Bay region |
| CRETE | The largest island of Greece, located in the East Mediterranean (5) |
| HOLLOWAY | Royal ___, university located in Egham (8) |
| STANFORD | Californian university which is a leading teaching and research institution (8) |
| LAROUSSE | French lexicographer who edited and co-compiled a 15-volume dictionary and founded a publishing house noted for a tome on gastronomy (8) |
| INSTITUI | I set up and founded, educated and trained |
| PTOLEMYI | Alexander the Great's Macedonian general who became ruler of 'gypt and founded a dynasty named after him (7,1) |
| CHEYENNE | In 1868, what name was rejected in favour of Wyoming, but was adopted for the state's capital city? (8) |
| BENJAMIN | first name Prime Minister in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880 (8) |
| OLIVETTI | Camillo, Italian electrical engineer born in 1868 who founded a typewriter factory (8) |
| DISRAELI | Prime Minister in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880 (8) |
| POGUES | The _ _ _ _ _ _ , Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and founded in London in 1982 (6) |
| FITZROY | Captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's voyage who wrote The Weather Book, invented a barometer and founded in 1854 what became the Met Office (7) |
| METLIFE | US insurance company founded in 1868; I'm fleet (anag.) (7) |
| CORNELL | American private Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York |
| YALE | American private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut |
| DAKOTAS | States split and founded in 1889 |
| ELKS | Group founded in 1868 |
