| ACTINGSCHOOL | What those in the abbey are doing employing teachers providing a series of lectures for those likely to play the fool (6,6) |
| COARSE | Crude series of lectures for speakers |
| GLORYHOLES | It's bloodcurdling taking in first lecture for those 18 on course providing storage spaces for all and sundry (5,5) |
| ESSAYIST | Writer providing a series of reminiscences, say, is thoughtful (8) |
| REHEARSAL | Run through what those in the abbey are capable of (9) |
| DISCO | 50% walk out of lectures for music (5) |
| RAREBIT | Dish dirt conclusively on teacher providing religious education for a bishop |
| DRAMATICSETTING | Those in the abbey are responsible for this striking on site (8,7) |
| ASSIST | In class, is teacher providing help? (6) |
| DEMOCRAT | Comrade’s rewritten middle of lecture for US politician |
| BESTOFABADJOB | Top office with wonderful commercial opening for what those in the bailout are doing (4,2,1,3,3) |
| VOLCANIC | One of those on the radio with headphones briefly in charge of one of those likely to blow top (8) |
| ACTS | A court summons - the first of a number dividing those in The Abbey (4) |
| EVERYTHING | The Theory of ___ book by Stephen Hawking based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University |
| LAYMAN | One of those in the abbey needing no introduction leads monks and nuns and one of the flock (6) |
| HEADGEAR | In principle, state provides local drugs for one of those likely to end up on the stand! (8) |
| MONKFISH | One of those in The Abbey cast is on a pescatarian diet (8) |
| TRANSCRIPT | Copy of nasty rant is given to one of those in the abbey (10) |
| TOGETHER | What those in a tete-a-tete are doing! (7,5,5,8) |
| PUTTING | What those in a tete-a-tete are doing! (7,5,5,8) (see 5D, 20A) |
