| KEBLE | One of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, named after a Tractarian (5) |
| TRINITY | One of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford (7) |
| QUEENMARY | One of the constituent colleges of the University of London (5,4) |
| KEELS | One of the founders of the so-called Tractarian movement (5) |
| CODRINGTON | The library at All Souls College, Oxford, named after the bibliophile who endowed it (10) |
| PAMPHLETEER | Tractarian nobleman without a speed permit (11) |
| KINGS | One of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge (5) |
| ORIEL | Style of bay window after which a constituent college of the University of Oxford is partly named (5) |
| VOTER | One of the constituents, etc., from corvette (5) |
| ELIAS | and 47ac, English antiquary who donated most of his collection to the University of Oxford to create a museum that is named after him |
| BALLIOL | One of the colleges of the University of Oxford, founded 1263 (7) |
| ONION | Going on and on about the constituent of the stew (5) |
| BIRKBECK | Constituent college of the University of London established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institute (8) |
| TECHS | Colleges of further education (5) |
| MARYSOMERVILLE | One of the first women's colleges of Oxford University was named after this Scots mathematician (4,10) |
| DEAN | The head of a constituent college of a university |
| COLLEGE | Any one of the constituent academic communities or institutions into which Oxbridge and other universities are separated (7) |
| BODLEIAN | Main research library of the University of Oxford, one of the oldest in Europe (8) |
| SIDNEY | And 23 College of the University of Cambridge named after a 16th Century countess (6,6) |
| SUSSEX | College of the University of Cambridge named after a 16th Century countess (6,6) |