| VARSITY | Disagree about how to take an exam at Oxford or Cambridge, say (7) |
| CRAM | Study for an exam at the last minute |
| ACUITY | Keenness seen entering university in Oxford or Cambridge, say |
| UNI | Oxford or Cambridge, say, in short (3) |
| TRINITY | Essay I can turn in at Oxford or Cambridge (7) |
| OPULENT | Grand work before university term at Cambridge, say (7) |
| TEXTILE | Take an exam in alternate form of higher education (7) |
| FALLOUT | Disagree about radioactive material (7) |
| SUBFUSC | Dark formal clothing (worn during exams at some universities) (7) |
| DIFFUSE | Mostly disagree about us lacking concentration |
| EYETEST | Exam at the optometrist's office |
| 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 |
| RESIT | Is about to take an exam, again (5) |
| HESITATES | The boy gets to take an exam - having lost time, dithers |
| DEANS | Heads of college faculties; fellows at Oxford or Cambridge universities in charge of junior members' discipline; or, chief Chapel Royal chaplains (5) |
| DON | Senior member of the college at Oxford or Cambridge (3) |
| DONS | Members of a university's teaching staff, especially at Oxford or Cambridge (4) |
| TESTSITE | Where to take an exam |
| UPPITY | Snobbish at Oxford or Cambridge? Cause for regret |
| BLOKES | Fellows at Oxford or Cambridge |
