| BOND | English playwright sure to leave university (4) |
| ERAS | Sure to leave erasures for long periods (4) |
| MAST | Pole on deck must leave university with top grade |
| ADEN | Wystan Hugh leaves university for foreign climes (4) |
| COMEDOWN | It's a disappointment to leave university (4,4) |
| PROPOSAL | Suggestion bizarrely so popular, to leave university (8) |
| NOBLE | Excellent? No - sad to leave university (5) |
| SUPERBLY | Magnificently, they find great bully is to leave University of Limerick |
| APPLETREE | Jonathan is sure to leave it in the fall (5,4) |
| CONCERTINA | Instrument study sure to leave answer to the end |
| ALAN | - Bennett, English playwright and author . Unfortunately (4) |
| BOLT | Robert ---, English playwright and Oscarwinning screenwriter (4) |
| HARE | Sir David ___, English playwright (4) |
| PIER | English playwright denied National Theatre support (4) |
| NOEL | Coward, English playwright who wrote Hay Fever and Private Lives (4) |
| DOGGO | Be sure to leave, receiving good hiding |
| LOOT | Second of the three full-length plays by English playwright Joe Orton, premiered in 1965 (4) |
| GODOWN | Leave university party in appropriate attire (2,4) |
| BOYS | Olivier and Tony Award winning drama by English playwright Alan Bennett, The History ... |
| JACK | English playwright whose TV dramas include Bar Mitzvah Boy, Spend, Spend, Spend and The Knowledge |
