| WYKEHAM | William of -; bishop who founded New College, Oxford and a school in Hampshire with the motto "'Manners Makyth Man" (7) |
| ODIHAM | Historic village in the Hart district of Hampshire with the ruins of a 13th-century castle (6) |
| EDWARDDEVERE | *The 17th Earl of Oxford and a prolific patron of the arts |
| SHOAL | Also constructing hospital in and a school (5) |
| BEDALES | Independent school in Hampshire that was founded in 1893 (7) |
| SPOONERISM | In which form of metathesis, named after a warden of New College, Oxford, are the initial sounds of words transposed to form a ludicrous sentence? (10) |
| WINCHESTER | Cathedral city in Hampshire with a public school founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 (10) |
| ALDERSHOT | Town in Hampshire with a large statue of the Duke of Wellington that was originally situated in Hyde Park (9) |
| BEALE | Suffragist who served as the principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College from 1858-1906 and founded St Hilda's College, Oxford (5) |
| WAITANGI | The Treaty of ___, 6 February 1840, between Britain and a number of Maori tribes, which effectively founded New Zealand (8) |
| JOWETT | Benjamin -; scholar who translated works of Plato, Aristotle and Thucydides and became a master of Balliol College, Oxford (6) |
| DEMY | A recipient of a type of scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford; or, prior to metrication, a size of paper, roughly approximating to A2 (4) |
| WHEATSON | Parent's boy who grows a crop full of gluten? (... to a school in Massachusetts) |
| DARTMOTH | Insect with pub missiles for wings? (going from a school in New Hampshire ...) |
| GRANGEHILL | TV drama series set in a school in the fictional borough of Northam (6,4) |
| ACCOUNTANCY | A matter facing a new college in county's borders for a profession (11) |
| FRESHMEN | New college students, and what's spelled out by the first letters of the people admitted to this puzzle's colleges |
| ODO | Bishop who was a half- brother of William the Conqueror (3) |
| CODRINGTON | The library at All Souls College, Oxford, named after the bibliophile who endowed it (10) |
| SOMERVILLE | Mary ?, member of the Royal Astronomical Society born in 1780 after whom ? College, Oxford, is named |
