| SHOEHORN | Force (in Oxford?) in chase sounding alarm |
| ASHMOLEANMUSEUM | Oldest historical exhibition centre in the UK, established in Oxford in 1683 (9,6) |
| THAMES | "Old Father" river known in Oxford as the Isis and described in Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (6) |
| LINACRE | Lake in quantity of land in postgraduate college in Oxford (7) |
| CHINO | Cloth seen in porch in Oxford |
| MENSA | It was founded in Oxford in 1946 |
| TENDENTIOUSNESS | Controversial bias seen in students getting first in Oxford perhaps (15) |
| BAGS | They were widely worn in Oxford in the '20s (4) |
| IRMELIN | Three-act opera by Delius that premiered in Oxford, England in 1953 (7) |
| ORSINO | Some actors in Oxford having a part in Twelfth Night (6) |
| SHOETREE | Old actor with house in Kent - one doing a stretch in Oxford? |
| SOLE | In Oxford, something beneath an upper second in Spanish - come on! |
| DOMINO | Gamey piece in trendy review in Oxford (6) |
| LODGING | Taking room in house or official residence in Oxford? (7) |
| ENGLISHACCENT | Stress picked up in Oxford, in a manner of speaking, at a college close to capital (7,6) |
| SIOUX | Indian in Oxford University is in another form of 6 (5) |
| BALLIOLCOLLEGE | In Oxford University the oldest academic institution in the English speaking world still on its original site (7,7) |
| HOUDINI | In a way, escapologist hid in Oxford University, briefly (7) |
| EXETER | A city in Devon or a college in Oxford (6) |
| RANDOLPH | The ____, luxury hotel in Oxford that was built in 1864 by William Wilkinson (8) |
