| PURSUANT | Funds being cut will need university worker in agreement (8) |
| PENURY | Need university dons to write lines (6) |
| LIPREADERS | They're following the mouthy movement, in a manner of speaking, for university worker in the margins (3-7) |
| PROFIT | Benefit to university worker in the city centre (6) |
| COVENANT | Group of witches and social worker in agreement (8) |
| PETULANT | Favourite university worker, about 50, becoming peevishly irritable (8) |
| ACADEMIC | A cad turns mice from university worker (8) |
| DEBUTANT | Financial liability restricting university worker, one making a first appearance? (8) |
| CUSTOMER | Maybe more cuts will attract one (8) |
| COSTUMES | Some cuts will restyle these! (8) |
| LECTURER | University worker (8) |
| TEQUILA | Alcoholic drink: writer, a bit cut, will get stuck into brew |
| RICHTEA | Wealthy English saved by tax cut will take biscuit? (4,3) |
| DROPIN | Suppose cut will undermine doctor making visit (4,2) |
| NACHO | Note a bit of meat, cut, will do for Mexican dish |
| DEARTH | My love, that fifty per cent cut will create a shortage |
| KEEPOUT | Warning: sharp cut will lead to rueful expression |
| WAG | With wages cut, will he joke? (3) |
| MINDREADER | Be offended by university worker - the one conscious of the thought process (4,6) |
| READER | University worker familiar with Dubliners, for example (6) |
