| LEAVESINNODOUBT | Provides certainty for 26 across finding hostelry near Oxford with reservation (6,2,2,5) |
| GRINDTOAHALT | Limp along, then stop by Mill Square near Oxford with a small railway station (5,2,1,4) |
| DEADENED | Numbed by a fair amount of those from 26 across finding energy in finish (8) |
| PEACEKEEPING | Like hope, a certainty for helping avoid conflict (5-7) |
| LACERTA | Heartily model a certainty for this genus of lizards (7) |
| CINCH | Certainty for commander-in-chief Henry (5) |
| DUALCARRIAGEWAY | Main artery, sometimes blocked, usually cut with reservation (4,11) |
| AMERICANINDIANS | Early consumers of 7 - with reservations (8,7) |
| MEMORIALTHEATRE | Death during dinner at operational centre awaiting reopening for 26 (with the 13 and the 14) (8,7) |
| SERENADETOMUSIC | Choral work for 26 beginning to seduce metro-audiences, possibly (8,2,5) |
| FLYACROSSTHESEA | Hit for #26-Across that goes "Always felt she was a queen of it all...": 4 wds. |
| CARABAO | Ring friend for graduate at Oxford with water buffalo (7) |
| SPORRAN | Go across, finding gold right inside pouch (7) |
| ANTIPASTO | Sounds like aunty takes history at Oxford with first course in Italy (9) |
| OMISSION | Gap in Oxford with young woman is charged (8) |
| OUTDOORGAMES | Old Tudor compound around Oxford with pastimes of jousting and archery (7,5) |
| CULHAM | Station between Didcot and Oxford with a listed Brunel-designed building (6) |
| ACCORD | Contract to provide half of Oxford with a small volume |
| BOOKBINDING | Finishing literary work, with reservation about awkward situation |
| BOOKING | What rowdy republican might do with reservation (7) |
