| ORDINATE | Get out of Oxford in a tediously straight line (8) |
| PROLIXLY | In a tediously lengthy manner |
| OMIT | Drop out of Oxford and go to American university (4) |
| OLDHAT | A tediously familiar thing |
| ENGLISHACCENT | Stress picked up in Oxford, in a manner of speaking, at a college close to capital (7,6) |
| OCTAVO | Officer on television wraps American capital at Oxford in a sizeable book perhaps (6) |
| ORDINAL | Old service book from Oxford in a library (7) |
| NOTEBOOK | Take a chance going up to Oxford in secluded place with small computer (8) |
| ELIAS | English antiquary whose donation of his collection to the University of Oxford in 1677 created Britain's first public museum (5) |
| ASHMOLE | English antiquary whose donation of his collection to the University of Oxford in 1677 created Britain's first public museum (7) |
| FIENNES | Ralph ___, plays the Duke of Oxford in The King's Man (7) |
| RALPHFIENNES | Schindler's List actor who plays the Duke of Oxford in the upcoming movie The King's Man: 2 wds. |
| BORROW | Take a loan of temple around Oxford in the middle of April (6) |
| ASHMOLEANMUSEUM | Oldest historical exhibition centre in the UK, established in Oxford in 1683 (9,6) |
| BLUE | A past or present representative of Cambridge or Oxford in varsity sports (4) |
| BAGS | They were widely worn in Oxford in the '20s (4) |
| PETERHOUSEMAN | Chelsea 1970 FA Cup Finalwinning midfielder signed by Oxford in 1975 (5,8) |
| CHARLESRYDER | Friend of Sebastian Flyte at Oxford in this 1945 novel (7,5) |
| IRMELIN | Frederick Delius three-act opera that premiered in Oxford in 1953 (7) |
| MORRISCOWLEYS | Cheaper stablemates of the Oxford in the 1950s (6,7) |