| POSTMATRICULANT | Send rug with weird rain cult to most senior school learner (4-11) |
| MONTESSORI | Reorganising most senior school |
| OLDEST | Most senior school destroyed, though not all of it (6) |
| EXAMPLE | After ordeal in school learner visits gym, for instance |
| SCHLEPPING | Taking long walk after school, learner reaches forest |
| STUDENT | School learner (7) |
| PLUTOCRAT | PR a cult to manipulate to become a rich man |
| SECT | A cult to be found in the South etc (4) |
| ECCLESIASTICAL | Community with weird Asiatic cells to do with church (14) |
| TRISECT | Verbally challenge cult to part on equal terms (7) |
| INTERSECT | 'Together', says cult to cut through red tape? (9) |
| NIGHTCLUB | New cult's to hand book round dance venue |
| HEADMASTERS | Senior school staff could produce these dramas (11) |
| PREFECT | Senior school pupil with authority |
| GCSE | Senior school qualification (inits) (4) |
| MARIONETTE | With weird attire on, myself, going out with a doll (10) |
| PICKON | Single out Greek character with weird conk (4,2) |
| HOTKEYS | It's no picnic with weird, psychokinetic shortcut buttons (3,4) |
| RELUCTANT | Indisposed in rave after consuming ecstasy with weird cult (9) |
| DIVIDED | Slogan of airline bearing with weird vid if, well, dead (6,2,5,7,2,4) |