| PUTUPON | Take advantage of place at college before working (3,4) |
| BURSARY | Grant, treasurer at college before end of July (7) |
| MEUNIERE | This is me at college, before being covered in flour etc |
| SIMPLON | Pass easily, taking year off before working (7) |
| DUDGEON | Slave runs out before working causing resentment (7) |
| CONTOUR | Outline cost initially, before working trip (7) |
| STRETCH | Warm up before working out |
| MISSION | Omit visiting Italy before working in special embassy abroad (7) |
| PLUS | Advantage of place north of America (4) |
| UNIONFLAG | Working with college before decline in national standards collectively |
| CATER | Supply college before a part of the academic year mostly (5) |
| COXSWAIN | Sailor, head of college before Oxford, from Shimla initially, on the wagon (8) |
| BALLBEARINGS | Mechanical facilitators for one's sense of place at a dance (4,8) |
| PLAINCLOTHES | Police out of place at the Fancy Dress Ball? (5-7) |
| INAPT | Out of place at home, a pint (5) |
| SCHOOL | Sort of place at which Daniel works in Coronation Street (6) |
| EMMANUEL | John Harvard graduated from this college before the one bearing his name existed |
| ENRON | Two hands run before working at scandal-hit US firm (5) |
| FULLMOON | Occasional shower at night before working satisfied doctor (4,4) |
| SUCCINCT | To put it short and sweet ? is coming back around college before car test (8) |