| CANTAB | Relating to Cambridge or its university (abbr.) |
| OAK | One of the fagaceous arbors forming a quercetum; its leaves, worn as a garland; something made from its wood, such as a heavy outer door to a college at Oxford or Cambridge; or, the brown colour of sa |
| SNOB | Word originally for a cobbler that came to mean a person of ordinary status, a townsman as opposed to Cambridge gownsman or an elitist (4) |
| BLUE | A past or present representative of Cambridge or Oxford in varsity sports; or, the colours awarded for such an achievement (4) |
| DON | Antithesis of "doff"; a teaching fellow at Oxford, Cambridge or other traditional English university; or, a Spanish gentleman/noble (3) |
| UNI | Cambridge or Oxford, to a Londoner |
| ALA | Southern state that's home to Tuskegee University: Abbr. |
| NYC | Metropolis that's home to Columbia University: Abbr. |
| MIT | Cambridge University abbr. |
| SMALLS | Examinations at Oxford formerly called responsions, or "little go" at Cambridge; or, undergarments (6) |
| OWNING | Admitting missing entrance to Cambridge college |
| PEMBROKE | Cambridge or Oxford college |
| QUEENS | College in Cambridge or in New York? (6) |
| EMIT | Radiate east to Cambridge campus (4) |
| UNIV | Cambridge or Oxford, briefly |
| DOWNGRADING | Demoting ex-student admitted to Cambridge college |
| LONELY | Pine endlessly, coming to Cambridge city in need of company |
| TAKINGS | Shop's income, thanks to Cambridge college (7) |
| MAGDALENE | Angel made alterations to Cambridge college (9) |
| PISA | It is a city on the Arno 50 miles (80 km) west of Florence. It became a Roman colony soon after 180 BCE. Its university was founded circa 1343. Its piazza includes a certain leaning tower. In The Tami |
