| UCA | Fiddler crab genus (or, a university minus its L) |
| SANFORD | TV junkyard operator whose name is that of a university minus its "T" |
| LIMULUS | King crab genus (7) |
| HENCEFORTH | From now on smashing French hotel loses its "L" (10) |
| AREA | For a rectangle, it's L x W |
| TROMPE | Time to play with England - but if it's l'oeil, it's an illusion! (6) |
| CASTOR | A flour dredger-like pepperette or sugar shaker with a perforated top; a sextuple star system that is Pollux's less-bright twin in Gemini; a beaver, its genus or a hat from its fur; or, a small swivel |
| CURRANT | Berry of a shrub in the Ribes genus; or, a small dried grape (7) |
| SPECIES | Unit of biological classification ranking below a genus; or, a group into which cloud genera are subdivided in meteorology (7) |
| MUSCA | House-fly genus or a constellation (5) |
| VANESSA | Butterfly genus or a Samuel Barber opera (7) |
| BUGLE | Plant of the ajuga genus, or a musical instrument (5) |
| UNIO | Mussel genus (or a marriage cut short?) |
| NAPS | "Activities" at a day care ... or a university ... or my apartment on a Sunday tbh |
| BROWN | A color or a university |
| OXFORDBLUE | Colour similar to navy; a variety of cheese; or, a university sportsman/ woman belonging to Vincent's Club (6,4) |
| FACULTY | An inherent power such as hearing, memory, reason or sight; or, a university department (7) |
| CLAW | Prominent part of a male fiddler crab |
| EMU | Bird that's a primate minus its first and last letters |
| JAFFNA | Sri Lankan city which, minus its fifth letter, is a type of orange |
