| EMMANUEL | Originally male university with men's college |
| SCOUTS | Named after a type of soldier skilled in reconnoitring, an originally male member of a youth organisation founded by Lord Baden-Powell (6) |
| BUSTAGUT | Laugh heartily, except around all-male university (4,1,3) |
| IMMURED | Shut up one married male university radical (7) |
| EXCAVATOR | Old warning dismissing energy with mens' ground-breaking device |
| REA | With "mens", Latin for "guilty mind", used in law settings to refer to criminal intent or malice aforethought (3) |
| MANGLE | Laundry appliance no good with men's clothing |
| ONEANDONE | Free throw designation in men's college basketball |
| OMAHA | City where the Men's College World Series takes place |
| SECONDHALF | Last part of the game in regulation, in men's college basketball (2 wds.) |
| ULTIMATELY | In the long run, Irish university backs American university with tip-off lately (10) |
| MICRODOT | College staff find ring in American university with a little bit of intelligence (8) |
| DIARISTS | Turns up, Sally got awards at university with a number of writers synonymous with the Daily Record (8) |
| IMITATORS | They copy one American university with thespians having missed college (9) |
| ARCHAEOLOGY | One of the major innovators in modern Arab art, Dia al-Azzawi graduated from Baghdad University with a degree in this field, which put him in direct contact with ancient civilizations of the Middle Ea |
| STJOHNS | University with campuses in New York and Rome |
| IOWA | Midwest university with 23 team wrestling championships |
| RICE | University with lots of owls |
| RADIUM | Force includes detective from university with radioactive element (6) |
| ELON | University with a phoenix mascot |