| HSU | College in Arcata, CA |
| CLARE | A county in Ireland, a town in Suffolk or a college in Cambridge? (5) |
| EMILYSTOWE | Trail blazing doctor (b.1831 - d.1903), in 1883 she spearheaded the creation of the Woman's Medical College in Toronto, today known as the Women's College Hospital: 2 wds. |
| ENMITY | Hatred in US college in Eastern state (6) |
| NUCLEON | Particle discovered in London college in gas |
| QUEENS | College in Cambridge or in New York? (6) |
| MDLI | Year the oldest college in the Americas was founded, in Mexico City |
| READMIT | Study before college in US to get let in again (7) |
| NUNEATON | Sister, apprehensive initially, in college in Warwickshire town (8) |
| CRUCIBLE | College regulation involving one Bishop supporting college in trial (8) |
| BERKELEY | American educational centre? Fool ending in college in English city |
| CASHDISCOUNT | Ignore college in the forest opening for those interested in better terms (4,8) |
| CASHESIN | In a redeeming way, profits as college in hot spot, remains popular (6,2) |
| URI | Big college in the smallest state in the US, briefly |
| BANNOCKBURN | Number with college in shallow stream in site of battle (11) |
| DECKLE | One of those employed in the manual papermaking business, set up The Spanish College in Kildare and Dublin (6) |
| KELLS | Medieval illuminated manuscript at Trinity College in Dublin in Ireland, The Book of ___ |
| LOGIC | I met my first girlfriend at a top college in mid-Wales and we fell in love -- I was studying a branch of philosophy (5) |
| ICEHOUSE | College in Ireland provides accommodation in a cold place surrounded by a number of blocks (8) |
| HERMIT | Recluse in a woman's college in the U.S. (6) |