| TRAPEZIUM | A prize mutt without tail circles quadrangle |
| MUTED | Mutt without tail has news boss in faint |
| CLOISTERS | Covered walks, usually around a quadrangle in religious institutions (9) |
| COURTYARD | Reporter caught a few feet from the quadrangle (9) |
| AUCOURANT | Well up with extra emotion finally in a university quadrangle |
| SETSQUARE | Use mathematical instrument to plant a quadrangle (3,6) |
| GILLESPIE | Bit of fish seen without tail, might a cat have followed him? (9) |
| HOBBINOLL | Spenserian rustic, fantastic creature without tail and head (9) |
| IMMIGRANT | Newcomer timing mare running without tail (9) |
| MERCURIAL | Lively blackbird without tail seen around religious court (9) |
| FORECOURT | Quadrangle originally enclosing our croft, surprisingly |
| ENCLOSURE | Quadrangle |
| PASSERINE | Bird went by without tail across Ireland |
| SHARPEYED | Quick to notice dog without tail regularly yields |
| SQUARE | A four-sided shape of a chocolate brownie, headscarf, mortarboard, quadrangle or quadrille dance figure; or, a space on a chessboard (6) |
| ATRIUM | The cavaedium in an ancient Roman domus, open to the sky; a colonnaded court or quadrangle of a medieval church; or, a glass-roofed central hall of a modern building (6) |
| CLOISTER | Covered walk on monastic or collegiate premises, typically having a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side (8) |
| ROCOCO | Bird without tail seizing bird without tail ___ that's grotesque (6) |
| DORMS | Sides of a quadrangle, maybe |
| MILAN | Italian city with a fashion quadrangle |
