| PEMBROKE | Cambridge or Oxford college |
| ORIEL | Type of window, or Oxford college (5) |
| BLUE | A past or present representative of Cambridge or Oxford in varsity sports; or, the colours awarded for such an achievement (4) |
| UNIV | Cambridge or Oxford, briefly |
| UNI | Cambridge or Oxford, for short |
| OAK | One of the fagaceous arbors forming a quercetum; its leaves, worn as a garland; something made from its wood, such as a heavy outer door to a college at Oxford or Cambridge; or, the brown colour of sa |
| SMALLS | Examinations at Oxford formerly called responsions, or "little go" at Cambridge; or, undergarments (6) |
| DON | Antithesis of "doff"; a teaching fellow at Oxford, Cambridge or other traditional English university; or, a Spanish gentleman/noble (3) |
| QUEENS | College in Cambridge or in New York? (6) |
| TRINITY | University college in Cambridge, Dublin or Oxford (7) |
| CANTAB | Relating to Cambridge or its university (abbr.) |
| SHOE | Wing-tip or oxford |
| HILARYTERM | Part of legal or Oxford year (6,4) |
| UNITED | Joined Ted after Yale or Oxford (6) |
| UNIVERSITY | Brown or Oxford |
| STS | Bay, Wall or Oxford: Abbr. |
| LOCKE | Pronouncement of e.g. Yale or Oxford philosopher |
| PILLOWCASE | Bed linen item with styles such as housewife or Oxford (10) |
| PARKWAY | Type of station at Bristol, Bodmin or Oxford, for example (7) |
| CHARCOAL | Wood burned without oxygen; a stick of said fusain, as a pencil; a drawing made with this; briquettes for barbecuing; or, Oxford grey (8) |
