| SYLVAN | Pleasantly rural school pupil consumed by dark blue boomerang (6) |
| BROODY | Consumed by dark thoughts |
| ONEROOM | Like some rural schools |
| NUMBER | Feeling less sun, ultimately, by dark shade (6) |
| KNIGHT | King accompanied by dark rider looking for adventure? |
| IGNITE | Light infantryman must retreat by dark, according to message |
| REPORT | What is a written statement on the progress and achievements of a school pupil? (6) |
| JUNIOR | From the Latin meaning "younger", the less senior of two people; a primary school pupil or under-boy; or, a word used to distinguish a son from his father (6) |
| PREPPY | Typical of expensive school pupil (US colloq.) |
| ALUMNI | Former (school) pupils |
| BRIDLEWAYS | Rural tracks identified by dark green signs with symbols of white horses or white discs bearing blue |
| MEADOWFESCUE | Erect Eurasian perennial grass, Festuca pratensis, with lustrous leaves and stem bases surrounded by dark brown sheaths (6,6) |
| HARDASNAILS | Painter capturing revolutionary Scot by dark river without sentiment (4,2,5) |
| DIMENSION | Size of boarding house at first obscured by dark |
| HORSE | What word can be preceded by dark, clothes and hobby? (5) |
| FISHING | The moniker for this smallish tropical cat found in India and Southeast Asia, characterized by dark spots and streaks, that's known for scooping its prey out of the water. |
| SCHOENBERG | Composer - one shaped by school pupil of his |
| COPED | In mixed school pupil initially got by |
| ESTONIAN | English public school pupil punched by Pole, a European (8) |
| CADET | A school pupil receiving elementary military training in a school corps (5) |
