| WEBER | Max _; German professor and one of the founders of sociology (5) |
| OTTOLIDENBROCK | Eccentric German professor who led Jules Verne's titular Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) (4,10) |
| DRACULA | 1897 epistolary novel by Irish author Bram Stoker that originally pitted German professor Max Windshoeffel against Count Wampyr (7) |
| FRIEDRICH | ___ Bhaer, German professor in Little Women (9) |
| STORE | Heads of Sociology think Oxford represents exceptional value (5) |
| EMILE | Durkheim who helped found the field of sociology |
| ERNST | Max _; German painter of the Dada school (5) |
| SONGS | Catches Carol with head of Sociology (5) |
| BRUCH | Max ___, German composer of oratorio Arminius born in 1838 (5) |
| REGER | Max ___, German composer and organist who died in 1916 (5) |
| ELLIS | Philologist who was an inspiration for Pygmalion's professor and identified several English dialects, including Cumbrian, Pitmatic and that of the Smoggies; or, an author who explored yuppie nihilism |
| COMTE | French positivist philosopher (1798-1857), one of the most important early figures in sociology |
| IBSEN | Playwright with drug - ditch posh professor and put in saint (5) |
| BEARD | Mary _, classics professor and TV historian (5) |
| BRIAN | Physics professor and TV presenter _ Cox (5) |
| LUPIN | Hogwarts professor and part werewolf |
| ANITA | Law professor and activist Hill |
| MAXWEBER | German economist and sociologist; a central figure in the development of sociology (3,5) |
| SYNTHESISE | Unite disparate elements of argument framed by limits of sociology and nature |
| HALL | Cultural theorist and long-serving Open University professor of sociology (6,4) |
