| SUNLIGHT | Southern university designs thing having luminance giving daytime illumination (8) |
| BAUHAUS | Dismissive comment by two Americans about university design school (7) |
| ARTDECO | Educator sadly leaves university design movement (3,4) |
| WATERLOO | Vital thing having somewhere to go for a battle (8) |
| NONESUCH | Excellent thing, having service in front of university church |
| MEASURES | Bars lakes around a southern university (8) |
| FLEABITE | Irritating thing having to run around somewhat |
| SIGHTING | View funny things, having drunk one gallon (8) |
| ENTITLES | Authorises things, having left for Italy (8) |
| ABSCISSA | Things having been ripped off: noli fures meditari sed vestimenta |
| SWOTUPON | Pore over Western books in southern university, start of prep in operation (4,2,2) |
| OSSIFIES | I.e., with addition of sulphur, fossil crumbles without luminance and turns into bony material (8) |
| NATURALLIGHT | Daytime illumination from that alluring concoction(7,5) |
| IMITATE | Setter's just the thing, having polished off ape (7) |
| DUDGEON | Useless thing having no say about feeling of resentment |
| LEMONSOLE | A bad thing, having only fish to eat |
| ELECTRODE | A shocking thing: having an even keel, rescuer stepped in (9) |
| NONPAREIL | A person or thing having no equal |
| PERFORMINGRIGHT | Licence to act through class rig, thing having gone wrong (10,5) |
| TORNADO | Devastating thing having ruined a trick |
