| BLUE | A past or present representative of Cambridge or Oxford in varsity sports; or, the colours awarded for such an achievement (4) |
| PITCH | A throw; persuasive sales talk; field of play in various sports; or, the high or low frequency of sound (5) |
| SUNRISE | Daybreak or dawn when the solar system's central star appears in the east; or, the colours and other atmospheric phenomena accompanying said occasion (7) |
| GREENS | Vegetables such as spinach or kale; village centres; or, the colours of holly leaves, pine needles, clementine leaves, elves hats and some tweeds/tartans (6) |
| LIGHTBLUE | Descend down, as representative of Cambridge (5,4) |
| SRS | Many varsity sports captains: Abbr. |
| CANTAB | Post-nominal suffix, letters or abbreviation indicating a degree from the university that competes against Oxford in Varsity matches (6) |
| LIGHT | Name given to sporting representatives of Cambridge University (5,5) |
| BLUES | Name given to sporting representatives of Cambridge University (5,5) |
| CREW | Varsity sport |
| OAK | One of the fagaceous arbors forming a quercetum; its leaves, worn as a garland; something made from its wood, such as a heavy outer door to a college at Oxford or Cambridge; or, the brown colour of sa |
| STREAK | Course or succession of luck or wins; a swift dash; or, the colour of the powder of a mineral (6) |
| ORANGE | In orienteering, the colour code of the courses with medium navigational difficulty rating, or the colour with white of the kites/flags at the control points (6) |
| VERDIGRIS | From "green of Greece", a bluish-green patina or aerugo that forms on brass, bronze or copper; a pigment of cupric acetate; or, the colour (9) |
| DON | Antithesis of "doff"; a teaching fellow at Oxford, Cambridge or other traditional English university; or, a Spanish gentleman/noble (3) |
| UNI | Cambridge or Oxford, to a Londoner |
| PINK | Call of a chaffinch; a clove-scented flower related to sweet william, carnation and red campion; or, the colour of the Leander Club's hippopotamus logo (4) |
| BROWN | A close-flying flock of game birds; or, the colour of "Betty" teapots, cappuccino, LBBs, skippers, smoky quartz or umber (5) |
| PEMBROKE | Cambridge or Oxford college |
| UNIV | Cambridge or Oxford, briefly |
