| EMMANUELCOLLEGE | Constituent part of the University of Cambridge founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I |
| EMMANUEL | College in Cambridge founded in 1584 by Walter Mildmay |
| CHRISTIE | Founder of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera with his wife Audrey Mildmay (8) |
| CLARECOLLEGE | Constituent part of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1326 as University Hall (5,7) |
| MAGDALENECOLLEGE | Constituent part of the University of Cambridge founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel |
| MAGDALENE | College of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1428 (9) |
| SOMERVILLECOLLEGE | Constituent part of the University of Oxford converted into a military hospital during World War I whose patients included Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon |
| KINGS | One of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge (5) |
| CORPUSCHRISTI | College of the University of Cambridge established in 1352; also a city in Texas (6,7) |
| SORBONNE | The ... is a part of the University of Paris founded in 1253 (8) |
| ROYAL | ___ Library part of the University of Copenhagen which is the largest library in the Nordic countries |
| ARCHANGEL | Port city in north-west Russia (pop about 350,000), founded in 1584 (9) |
| TRINITY | A constituent college of the University of Cambridge, attended by 32 Nobel laureates including Lord Rayleigh, Niels Bohr and George Paget Thomson (7) |
| STEPHEN | In 2009, which physicist hosted a cocktail party at the University of Cambridge for time travellers, buying in balloons, champagne and nibbles, and sending out invitations the following day? (7,7) |
| HAWKING | In 2009, which physicist hosted a cocktail party at the University of Cambridge for time travellers, buying in balloons, champagne and nibbles, and sending out invitations the following day? (7,7) |
| SUBATOM | Constituent part of the smallest quantity of an element |
| EDSAC | The second electronic digital stored-program computer, first used at the University of Cambridge in 1949 |
| NORTHERNIRELAND | Constituent part of the United Kingdom whose highest peak is Slieve Donard (8,7) |
| WALES | Constituent part of the UK whose capital is Cardiff (5) |
| DUBAI | Constituent part of the United Arab Emirates |
