| GREER | Feminist academic and TV personality, Germaine ----- (5) |
| BEARD | Mary _, academic and TV historian (5) |
| ALICE | _ Roberts, academic and TV presenter (5) |
| GERMAINE | Feminist academic and journalist, _ Greer (8) |
| DAVIS | US author, academic and activist, and former vice presidential candidate for the Communist party (6,5) |
| SUPRA | Latin word meaning "above", used in academic and legal citation (5) |
| TWEED | Material favoured by academics and farmers (5) |
| GUEST | Germaine, author of the books The Whole Woman and The Boy (5) |
| MASON | Germaine ..... , high jump silver medallist for GB at the 2008 Olympics (5) |
| LEES | Feminist academic Sue |
| ANGELA | US author, academic and activist and former vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party (6,5) |
| PROFORMA | Choice between academic and graduate, following set procedure (3,5) |
| READER | Senior academic and book user |
| ORACLE | Authority of vacuous older academic and laureate (6) |
| IBUPROFEN | Drug that is probed by British university academic and knight (9) |
| DIPLOMAT | I'd back conspiracy involving academic and envoy, say (8) |
| PROFILED | Portrayed someone academic and terribly idle |
| DOCUMENTS | Informal academic and university fellows taking time with special papers |
| ARCHDEACON | Support English account penned by academic and cleric |
| PROFFER | Academic and judge (ret'd) hold out (7) |
