| RINGSUP | Contacts pursuing careers having left university (5,2) |
| RUBENS | Artist's career's having to be pigeon-holed |
| LEICESTERSQUARE | Less quiet career, having moved to London location |
| CHEQUERED | With career having varied fortunes, queer he gets involved in Civil Defence |
| LUMPSUM | Compensation for injury having left university with bad mumps? |
| LUCILLA | A girl, having left university, gathering lilac |
| MENTORING | Advising chaps on journey having left university behind |
| LEGENDARY | Fabulous guy having left university learned to dance (9) |
| LINGUISTS | Having left university, I moved into a large place in Ingst with five of my mates who were all various foreign language students (9) |
| LUMBAGO | Complaint left university doctor with a turn (7) |
| UTTERLY | Without any qualifications, say, left university finally (7) |
| UNEATEN | After meal, left university to tidy up (7) |
| LUSTRUM | Left university to play guitar for several years |
| LURIDLY | Sensationally left university, free of heartless woman (7) |
| TOLSTOY | Who left university without a degree and wrote the masterpiece War and Peace (1869)? (7) |
| PORTUGAL | Country girl left university, having got first |
| ULTRA | Extremist, having given up painting, left university |
| LULL | Left university students at quiet time (4) |
| LUMINARY | Leading light left university pregnant with virtuous mother coming round (8) |
| LUCID | Reasonable to have left university to join detectives (5) |
