| SEMESTER | Half-year term in a school or university, especially in Germany and the US, typically ranging from 15 to 18 weeks (8) |
| PROSIT | Salutation used in drinking toasts, especially in Germany; from Latin, 'may it benefit' (6) |
| EURO | Monetary unit in Germany and the Netherlands |
| TESTY | The United States typically gets cranky (5) |
| SEMESTERS | Half-year terms in the US (9) |
| SHAVKAT | Incumbent president of Uzbekistan re-elected for a seven-year term in July 2023 (7,10) |
| MIRZIYOYEV | Incumbent president of Uzbekistan re-elected for a seven-year term in July 2023 (7,10) |
| LUSTRUM | A five-year term in Ancient Rome (7) |
| APPALOOSA | Breed of horse, originally from America, typically having a spotted rump (9) |
| ASUSUAL | Temp gets caught going out around America, typically (2,5) |
| BURSARY | A scholarship or grant awarded in a school or university (7) |
| EXTREME | In logic, the subject or predicate in a proposition, or the major or minor term in a syllogism (7) |
| SRC | Students' governing body at a school or university (1,1,1) |
| PROSPECTUS | A printed booklet advertising a school or university to potential parents or students (10) |
| QUAD | Square space outside, with buildings on all four sides, especially in a school or college, as in the giant granadilla (Passiflora ___rangularis)! (4) |
| COMMONROOM | A space in a school or college for use of students or staff outside teaching hours (6,4) |
| DORMITORY | A large bedroom for a number of people in a school or institution (9) |
| TUCKSHOP | British term for a small food retail operation, usually in a school or hospital (4,4) |
| ZIRCON | From "golden", a gem and a silicate of atomic no. 40, whose colours, ranging from clear to red, brown, blue, green, yellow and smoky, can be observed in its varieties hyacinth, jacinth, jargoon and sp |
| POD | Seedcase or husk containing garden peas or broad beans; a chilli; a school or social order of dolphins; or, one of the passenger compartments of a big wheel (3) |
