| DICTATES | Orders to dig up park near academy and institute surrounded by university (8) |
| NSEATANSWILL | Empty street surrounded by University, almost nothing to be seen |
| TESTPILOTS | Risky high-flyers in 10 across at institute surrounded by conspiracies (4,6) |
| HOMBURG | Order to dig around - put on hard hat |
| OVERINDULGENT | Finished order to dig tunnel, being hedonistic (13) |
| QUANTICO | SE Virginia's 'town that cannot grow', home to facilities including the Marine Corps University, the FBI Academy and the DEA Training Academy (8) |
| DIABOLIC | Turns up, college and institute pitch gets subsidy as it's rather wicked (8) |
| SUCCINCT | Compact small university and institute checks jaguars for problems (8) |
| UNEDITED | University and institute in need of a first draft perhaps (8) |
| CIRCUITS | The researchers from university and institute in court for starting science courses (8) |
| UPRISING | University and institute in rotten spring of The Easter Rebellion (8) |
| FIXADATE | Agree when it's the best time to join academy and when to go out with someone (3,1,4) |
| ACAPULCO | Academy and top college contacts firm in Mexico (8) |
| ASSORTED | Mixed academy and school? That's classified! (8) |
| REYNOLDS | First president of the Royal ' Academy and leading portraitist of his day who set out his theories on art in a series of 15 lectures published in Discourses on Art (8) |
| CHARLIES | Fifty years ago in television land, three recruits left the LA Police Academy and became what? (8,6) |
| EFFODERE | To dig up - unearth and exhume are calque translations |
| TRENCHES | Use some large plates, right away, to dig up defences on the front line (8) |
| GOPUBLIC | Make widely known U.S. party and institute in renovated club (2,6) |
| TAPROOTS | Parts too difficult to dig up? (8) |
