| HADON | Laugh at professor who is teased (3,2) |
| MORIARTY | Professor who is Sherlock Holmes's main antagonist (8) |
| DON | Nod back at professor (3) |
| SNAPE | Harry Potter professor who headed Slytherin house |
| IBSEN | Analgesic has succeeded for university professor who wrote plays (5) |
| LUPIN | Hogwarts professor who was also a werewolf |
| RUBIK | Hungarian professor who invented a famous cube (5) |
| REICH | Robert ***** , professor who was Labour Secretary under Bill Clinton (5) |
| BRIAN | Professor who used to be in D:Ream, _ Cox (5) |
| LURIE | Pulitzer-winning professor who penned Don't Tell the Grown-ups, The War Between the Tates, books for children and also edited The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (5) |
| ESCAPIST | Dreamer in dunce's cap is teased (8) |
| TORMENTED | Taking to royal chaps, man is teased (9) |
| SEDATE | Solemn - is teased terribly |
| SETASIDE | Is teased about agricultural policy (3-5) |
| EASTSIDE | Is teased about this part of New York (4, 4) |
| INTREATED | ... for love, being universal, is teased and foiled (9) |
| OUTWITTED | ... for love, being universal, is teased and foiled (9) |
| RINGSIDESEAT | Circle is teased possibly getting advantageous viewing position (8,4) |
| DEVONSHIRETEA | Meat eater is teased about hot, light meal (10,3) |
| NALOHOPKINSON | Jamaican-Canadian speculative fiction author and UBC professor who recently gave a talk at McGill on the value of queer voices in genre fiction. |
