| SKINDIVERS | They may come across a school where truants hide in the back of cupboard |
| ENGLISH | (and 5 Across) A school employee, he neglects hair badly (7,7) |
| PREJUDICED | Before getting squeezed round back of cupboard, leaning to one side (10) |
| INTHEFIELD | Where soldiers serve, one may come across bull (2,3,5) |
| RESTAURANT | Truants are out of place in canteen (10) |
| UNIT | Subdivision of a larger military body; one of a set of cupboards or cabinets forming a fitted kitchen; a standard measure of a quantity; or, an educational course credit (4) |
| TUCKSHOP | A store in or near a school where food such as cakes and sweets are sold (4,4) |
| TAYLORSWIFT | She donated $50,000 to Boston's Horace Mann School for the Deaf in 2012 after it suspiciously won an online poll set up to choose a school where she'd play a concert |
| JOURNEYMEN | Truants |
| MEETONESMATCH | Come across a lighter on the way to see a partner (4,4,5) |
| FIND | Come across a bit of fish at the start of dinner (4) |
| ETONCOLLAR | Does truant's housemaster feel this later on, nastily seizing pass? |
| LATERALTHINKING | Such creativeness may come across in the doodle box as a side thought, perhaps? (7,8) |
| AUCTIONBRIDGE | Caution about something you may come across in a card game (7,6) |
| TUCKSHOPS | Retail units, especially in or near a school, where food such as cakes and sweets are sold (4,5) |
| CABIN | A wooden chalet, dwelling-house, lodge or log-hut after which a type of cupboard derives its name; or, a private room on a ship (5) |
| CLASS | Unit in a school where students are taught together; social order (5) |
| ADMIRED | Looked up to notice dirt at back of cupboard |
| PRESERVED | Kept jam at back of cupboard (9) |
| DOVER | From back of cupboard, finished port |
