| GIRTON | Village north-west of Cambridge to which a women's college, established in 1869, moved in 1872 |
| ALUMNA | Graduate of a women's college |
| ROLLESBY | Norfolk village north-west of Great Yarmouth that has a round-tower church |
| GIVERNY | Village north-west of Paris where Claude Monet lived for 43 years (7) |
| ORIEL | University of Oxford college established in 1326 under the patronage of Edward II (5) |
| INSKIP | Fylde village north-west of Preston (6) |
| SON | Duke of Cambridge to Prince of Wales |
| HARVARD | First college established in North America (1636) |
| SIZEWELL | Coastal village north of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, that became site of a Magnox nuclear power station in 1968 (8) |
| DALCHALM | Boy returning to middle of nowhere in tranquil village north of Brora (8) |
| KATE | The Duchess of Cambridge, to friends |
| SPELMAN | College established in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary |
| ALCORN | ___ State University (first Black land grant college established in the US) |
| ELECTOR | Member of a College established by the Constitution |
| SCOTTON | Village north-east of Harrogate in North Yorkshire (7) |
| RYDAL | Village north of Ambleside in Cumbria (5) |
| EMILYSTOWE | Trail blazing doctor (b.1831 - d.1903), in 1883 she spearheaded the creation of the Woman's Medical College in Toronto, today known as the Women's College Hospital: 2 wds. |
| VASSAR | Prestigious women's college in New York State, founded 1861, which went co-ed in 1969 (6) |
| BURYSTEDMUNDS | The A14 from Cambridge to Ipswich passes through this cathedral town |
| CAM | River that flows through Cambridge to the River Ouse (3) |
