| LUX | Latin word shared by the mottoes of Yale and Tufts |
| ESTO | Word in the mottoes of Idaho and Missouri |
| TOWN | Word shared by football clubs in Huddersfield, Swindon and Yeovil (4) |
| MARMOSET | Small South American monkey with a long hairy tail, clawed digits and tufts of hair around the head and ears (8) |
| IKNOW | Words shared by catchphrases of Sybil and Manuel in Fawlty Towers |
| WECANT | Words shared by forbidden lovers, maybe |
| ETHELRED | Name shared by the elder brother of Alfred the Great, and the 'Unready' half-brother of Edward the Martyr (8) |
| ERASMUSDARWIN | What name was shared by the grandfather and brother, both noted scientists, of the naturalist who published On the Origin of Species (1859) |
| NIAGARA | Name of the large waterfall of note shared by the USA and Canada |
| ENOCH | Name shared by the first son of Cain (Genesis 4:17) and the father of Methuselah (Genesis 5:21) (5) |
| PORTLAND | Name shared by the most populous cities of the US states of Maine and Oregon (8) |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE | Member welcomed by literati once shifting between Yale and Harvard, say? (15) |
| IVY | Harvard, Yale and Princeton are all members of which league? (3) |
| IVYLEAGUE | Group of eight elite US universities including Yale and Princeton |
| IVIED | Like the walls at Yale and Harvard |
| FLAKE | Name shared by the meat of a certain fish and a crystal of snow |
| KEIR | Name shared by the first and current leaders of the Labour Party (4) |
| NASSAU | Name shared by the capital of the Bahamas and a prominent Dublin street. (6) |
| NEWHAVEN | City and port in Connecticut that is the seat of Yale University |
| ELIHU | First name of the founder of Yale University (5) |
