| ROYALENGINEERS | Technical corps from US university engaged in sneering or stirring |
| SARCASM | What is a sneering or cutting remark (7) |
| INTRANSIGENCE | Refusal to alter one's opinion demonstrated in sneering act, sadly |
| LIEUTGEN | Title-for-short, for Sir Arthur Currie (WWI Commander of the Canadian Corps, from 1917 to 1919) |
| DUO | Pair from university engaged in activity (3) |
| NAURU | Small country university engaged in North American sport (5) |
| FORUM | University engaged in class meeting (5) |
| AUDEN | Poet university engaged in a study |
| RESIDUE | Rest of university engaged in lie |
| CURATE | Assistant minister's university engaged in case (6) |
| ASPERUSUAL | University engaged in a second reading, following normal practice |
| FOUR | University engaged in supporting a quartet |
| MIXER | Word for a blender, cocktail shaker, socialiser, troublemaker or other combining, muddling, mingling or stirring person or thing (5) |
| ROUSE | Word whose etymological journey arose or started with a falcon's feather shake but moved to a broader term encompassing awakening or stirring up emotions; or, a bugle's wake-up call (5) |
| WOK | Large metal bowl-shaped Chinese pot used for frying or stirring (3) |
| INCITING | Encouraging or stirring up, violence perhaps (8) |
| POKER | Metal rod for prodding or stirring an open fire (5) |
| SPATULA | A utensil with a broad, flat blade, used for spreading, lifting or stirring foods (7) |
| DISMISSIVE | Is girl in place of ill repute, sneering? (10) |
| IDEST | In other words, sneering most when tin's taken out |