| AMBIGUOUS | Vague old American with scholar up at famous university (9) |
| MARSHALL | Old American with a plan for shopping centre to cover rash development (8) |
| YALTA | Why Alistair turned up at famous port (5) |
| ACADEMIC | Muslim military leader briefly in Dacca working with scholar (8) |
| INTELLIGENTSIA | Settling in, I take ale with scholars and academics, perhaps? (14) |
| CLAUSTROPHOBIC | Scholar up to no good with writer worried about being confined (14) |
| PROBLEM | Puzzle for legal scholar up from Middle East (7) |
| OVERLORDS | Dominates bowling spell at famous cricket ground (9) |
| ASTRODOME | Team doors move at famous stadium (9) |
| SHOEBOXES | Stack at Famous Footwear, and a hint to the sets of circled letters |
| RADCLIFFECAMERA | Having arrived in Cardiff, earl condemned famous university building (9,6) |
| OBSCURE | Vague old bishop introducing second churchman |
| CLEARASMUD | Vague old poet caught while circulating slander (5,2,3) |
| MOUSTACHE | After a short time American, with sensitivity, cut the man's whiskers (9) |
| BUNGALOWS | Bribe American with cheap second homes (9) |
| ANALGESIA | Pain relief for north American with broken leg detained in the Far East (9) |
| AEROSMITH | Rock group, American, with more hits possibly (9) |
| LAKOTA | Native American western at famous corral on location in California |
| LILLYLIVER | If a pharmaceutical giant merged with a famous University of California laboratory, they'd be ___ |
| POLK | Famous University of North Carolina alumnus |
