| ALMAMATER | One's old university or school (4,5) |
| STUDIED | Applied oneself to learning at university or school (7) |
| CAMPUS | Grounds and group of buildings, often of a university or school (6) |
| ALMA | With 26-Across, one's old university |
| SOPHOMORE | Second-year university or high-school student, especially in North America (9) |
| PROFESSOR | A university or college teacher of the highest grade (9) |
| ACADEMICS | University or college members |
| STANDREWS | Disembark at Leuchars for Scottish resort, university, or famous golf course (2,7) |
| BOLOGNESE | Of the city home to the world's oldest university; or, in a meat and tomato sauce (9) |
| PATRICIDE | The end of one's old man is killing (9) |
| ATITAGAIN | Back to one's old tricks |
| PRODIGIOUS | For accommodation around one old university, it's astonishing |
| CHARTER | Document incorporating a bank, university or company; or, the hire of a private jet or yacht (7) |
| ACADEMIC | Teacher or scholar in a university or college (8) |
| ALUMNI | Former graduates or students of a university or college (6) |
| PROFESSORS | Principal lecturers or teachers in fields of learning at a university or college (10) |
| NAPS | "Activities" at a day care ... or a university ... or my apartment on a Sunday tbh |
| DON | Antithesis of "doff"; a teaching fellow at Oxford, Cambridge or other traditional English university; or, a Spanish gentleman/noble (3) |
| OBSOLETE | Old and bitter, occasionally admitting one's old (8) |
| MATER | Alma ___; one's old school |
