| CONSERVATOIRE | College of music |
| GROVE | First director of the Royal College of Music who founded the Dictionary of Music and Musicians; or, a woodland/orchard of lemon, orange or olive trees (5) |
| REIMANN | In 1883 who, with Cecil Sharp, founded the first Australian college of music, the Adelaide College o |
| MCCABE | John ___, British composer and pianist who was director of the London College of Music from 1983 to 1990 |
| OSAKA | Japan's ___ College of Music |
| ELDER | Formerly known as the Adelaide College of Music, what South Australian conservatorium, founded in 18 |
| HOLST | English composer who played the 1A professionally to support himself while studying at the Royal College of Music |
| CORPUSCHRISTI | College of the University of Cambridge established in 1352; also a city in Texas (6,7) |
| POLYCHROMATIC | Mr Chaotic works behind college of many colours |
| OFFICEROFARMS | College of Heralds official (7,2,4) |
| THELONDONSCHOOL | College of the University of London that has the highest percentage of international students of all British universities (3,6,6,2,9) |
| OFECONOMICS | College of the University of London that has the highest percentage of international students of all British universities (3,6,6,2,9) |
| GIRTON | College of Cambridge University that was founded as Britain's first residential college for women of |
| POPPY | Wild flower with a species synonymous with remembering those who died during the First World War, depicted on the coat of arms of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (5) |
| ORIEL | Constituent college of the University of Oxford originally founded under the patronage of Edward II in 1326 (5) |
| BLUEMANTLE | One of the pursuivants of the English College of Arms (4,6) |
| DULWICH | District in London's Southwark, site of a public school founded by Edward Alleyn as the College of God's Gift and of a picture gallery designed by Sir John Soane (7) |
| LINACRE | Oxford University college named after the founder of the Royal College of Physicians |
| DEAN | Head of the College of Cardinals |
| GRIFFIN | Mythical mascot of the College of William & Mary |