| OLEMISS | Nickname of the university that was the site of a 1962 desegregation drama |
| ELON | Post-nominal suffix indicating a degree from the university that shares a historic rivalry with Cambridge (4) |
| OXON | Post-nominal suffix indicating a degree from the university that shares a historic rivalry with Cambridge (4) |
| PHISLAMMAJAMMA | Nickname of the University of Houston's basketball team in the early 1980s |
| SEWANEE | Home and nickname of The University of the South |
| CANTAB | Post-nominal suffix, indicating a degree from the university that competes against Oxford in Varsity matches (6) |
| UCLA | Berkeley was the radical campus of the 60s but in the 30s it was this Los Angeles university that was described as a hotbed of communism (1,1,1,1) |
| KEELE | Village and civil parish in northern Staffordshire, approximately three miles west of Newcastle-under-Lyme, that is home to a university that was founded in 1949 |
| GIRTON | College of Cambridge University that was founded as Britain's first residential college for women of |
| TULANE | University that was originally the Medical College of Louisiana |
| FOOTLIGHTS | Amateur theatrical club run by the students of Cambridge University that was founded in 1883 (10) |
| BROUHAHA | Relation attending university that was a joke, creating uproar (8) |
| BLITZ | Aerial bombardment, and the title of a 1962 musical for which Vera Lynn recorded a contribution (5) |
| CORNELL | Only Ivy League university that was never closed to women |
| ROCHEFORT | Belgian city of Wallonia, close to the Ardennes, that was the site of the Battle of Bure during the Second World War (9) |
| NAACP | Org. that represented the plaintiffs in a landmark desegregation case |
| LITTLEROCK | "The ___ Nine" (teens who were involved in the desegregation of an Arkansas high school) |
| SPATE | Aerial bombardment, and the title of a 1962 musical for which Lynn recorded (5) |
| YPRES | Nicknamed "Wipers" by British troops, Belgian town that was the site of three battles of the First World War including one during the Race to the Sea (5) |
| ANZIO | Port and resort on the coast of the Lazio region of Italy that was the site of Allied landings in World War II (5) |
