| PREPOSSESSION | Homework outstanding before term - one's engrossed in it |
| SPACEINVADERS | Press frantically to restrict alien advance, when one's engrossed in this? (5,8) |
| PERI | Spritely one engrossed in experiments (4) |
| NUN | One engrossed in religion, undoubtedly (3) |
| TEETHING | ____ problems, short-term ones that occur in the early stages of a new project (8) |
| TREMOLOS | Many notes after poor term, one's performance raised (8) |
| EARLYBIRD | Before term, term one rising ahead of others (5,4) |
| LADYBIRD | Insect identified by boy unknown before term in prison (8) |
| ENUMBER | English, before term of Gordon Brown, produce code in EU (1-6) |
| NASIM | Arab "freshman" in lawsuit periodically before term's end |
| LEADERENE | Thatcher, for one, in element before terms in Foreign Office (9) |
| INTERVIEW | We're in TV, perhaps one's engrossed audience (9) |
| PREEMIE | Baby born long before term (US informal) |
| RAGTAG | Badly organised student event before term |
| SHORT | Word before term or circuit |
| MARTINET | Disciplinarian could train me before term starts (8) |
| MAIDENNAME | Woman's first entitlement could be over before term |
| MICHAELMAS | Term one man had before another returned (10) |
| PARTICIPLE | Grammatical term, one beginning to pull in a bit (10) |
| LITERATIM | Latin term, one for the ultimate of precision in reproduction |
