| ALSO | Too stupid at first to enter even parts of Balliol |
| ASWELL | Too sensible at first to enter a lift shaft (2,4) |
| LEASTWISE | Most stupid, at any rate, in the US (9) |
| DIMINISH | Stupid at home, his new shrink |
| BRAINDRAIN | Head of Balliol departs in lots of wet weather - a loss of talent |
| JOWETT | Benjamin -; scholar who translated works of Plato, Aristotle and Thucydides and became a master of Balliol College, Oxford (6) |
| BRACKETS | Rows, supporting head of Balliol eight here in these |
| OXONIAN | Graduate of Balliol, e.g. |
| OVERDRAFT | Too stupid to cross river, having bad position at bank |
| DULL | Too stupid to be cutting (4) |
| OBTUSE | Too stupid to get the right angle? (6) |
| SOOTHE | He's too stupid to appease (6) |
| OSTEOPATH | The sap too stupid to get manipulator (9) |
| OVATION | Ivan too stupid to give applause (7) |
| OUTWIT | Get the better of berk at Balliol? (6) |
| BUDDHISTS | Adherents of cleric, last out of church, first to enter coach (9) |
| ATALETOLDBYANIDIOT | Macbeth's life identity: a ballad too stupid? |
| BUFFALOBILL | Expert at Balliol trained as travelling showman |
| COLLEGE | Any one of the typically historic Oxbridge buildings including Balliol, Merton and Peterhouse (7) |
| BEERCELLAR | Small group always first to enter place of refreshment such as this? |
