| LINGUISTICS | Left in good university one tolerates spoken study of language |
| LANGUID | Having no enthusiasm for good university, one inland? (7) |
| GATEAU | Cake and a hot drink taken in good university (6) |
| CHEERFUL | Rise of Free Church over turn to the left in good spirits (8) |
| CLEARLY | Without doubt, leader of competition left in good time (7) |
| FITASAFIDDLE | Disaffiliated, one is left in good shape (3,2,1,6) |
| OPORTO | Keep left in good centre of the city (6) |
| SEMANTICS | Scan Times in order to find such study of language (9) |
| TRUSTEE | Renovated street around university -- one might be in charge of all the property (7) |
| UKELELE | Student in university, one in Staffordshire, has an instrument (7) |
| SPORTINGCHANCE | Bob left in good church, a Northern church, has fair prospect of success (8,6) |
| STARLING | A leading lady left in good order with a black bird (8) |
| FLAVOUR | Property left in good will (7) |
| GRAMMAR | Study of language that's relative, loosely speaking? (7) |
| PHILOLOGY | The study of language, its history and development (9) |
| PHILOLOGICAL | Relating to the study of language |
| LINGUIST | One who teaches the study of languages (8) |
| ENDURES | How one tolerates most rudeness (7) |
| ABIDER | One tolerates a Democrat president briefly meeting Republican |
| REDBRICK | _ university, one of the nine 19th-century civic universities founded in English industrial cities (8) |
