| SCRAPING | Inform locally about college music - it's really cutting edge stuff, by the sound of it (8) |
| TUCKSHOP | Friar to inform locally where one can find the smarties at break-time (4,4) |
| DRUMMAJOR | Certain college music student? |
| SURGICAL | This sort of operation is cutting edge stuff (8) |
| SCHEMING | Tell the police locally about 100 on the border taking part in a conspiracy (8) |
| SCIMITAR | Mark admits one American university offers cutting edge stuff (8) |
| OUTPOSTS | Tells everyone locally about position offering way-out settlements (8) |
| SCANDIUM | Daniel gets into music - it's metal (8) |
| KODAK | Film company has overdraft; in the smelly stuff by the sound of it (5) |
| FUELTANK | Sorry tale in music, its content is highly volatile (4,4) |
| LIMERICK | Comic verse-caustic stuff by Richard (8) |
| OINTMENT | Despite snag bring healing stuff by air (3,2,3,8) |
| FLYINTHE | Despite snag bring healing stuff by air (3,2,3,8) |
| STARDUST | Fine stuff by protagonist in old song (8) |
| PEPPERED | Hot stuff by journalist is thoroughly pelted (8) |
| ORECROWE | Triumph over weedy stuff by Native American ending in waffle |
| CARKEY | Driver needs this brown stuff, by the sound of it |
| STATIONARY | Still writing stuff, by the sound of it (10) |
| OBSTACLE | Former pupil's story about college bar (8) |
| PENTACLE | Writer with story about college's mystic symbol (8) |
