| 100% | EARL | 4 | ___ of Oxford |
| 87% | ORIEL | 5 | One of Oxford's colleges |
| 87% | DONS | 4 | Fellows of Oxford and Cambridge |
| 79% | SCHOOLTIE | 9 | Clothing symbol for a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge |
| 79% | OXONIAN | 7 | A person who comes from the city of Oxford |
| 76% | ZED | 3 | End of the Oxford English Dictionary |
| 76% | ETON | 4 | Alma mater of many Oxford students |
| 75% | EARL | 4 | 17th ___ of Oxford, author of Shakespeare's plays, by some accounts |
| 74% | TOME | 4 | Any volume of the Oxford English Dictionary |
| 74% | SET | 3 | 22+ pages of the Oxford English Dictionary |
| 74% | DAHL | 4 | One-author focus of an Oxford dictionary |
| 72% | DREAMING | 8 | Oxford's romantic nickname, the city of __ spires |
| 70% | VAPE | 4 | Oxford English Dictionary's 2014 word of the year |
| 70% | CHERWELL | 8 | Tributary of the River Thames that flows through Oxford |
| 68% | PHRASE | 6 | Occasional Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year, oddly |
| 67% | HISTORY | 7 | "The ___ Boys," film starring Richard Griffiths whose story references the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge |
| 66% | SET | 3 | Entry comprising more than twenty pages of the Oxford English Dictionary |
| 64% | SHELLEY | 7 | Percy Bysshe ___, English Romantic poet of "Ozymandias" who attended University College, Oxford |
| 64% | EMOJI | 5 | The Oxford Dictionaries 2015 "Word" of the Year is one |
| 64% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 13-Across, Oxford's 2022 Word of the Year |
| 63% | RALPHFIENNES | 12 | "Schindler's List" actor who plays the Duke of Oxford in "The King's Man": 2 wds. |
| 62% | NEWMAN | 6 | John Henry —, 19th-century theologian; one of the founders of the Oxford Movement |
| 62% | BORIS | 5 | ___ Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who studied at Balliol College, Oxford |
| 61% | INKY | 4 | Mr. ___ Ingram, noted and long-term headmaster of Oxford's Dragon School in the '60s, '70s and '80s |
| 58% | ASHMOLE | 7 | Elias —, 17th-century antiquary whose collection of artefacts and library was donated to Oxford University |
| 58% | SELFIE | 6 | Picture type that Oxford Dictionaries named its "Word of the Year" in 2013 |
| 57% | KEBLE | 5 | John —, a leader of the Oxford Movement and author of book of poems The Christian Year |
| 56% | SOMERVILLE | 10 | Mary —, member of the Royal Astronomical Society born in 1780 after whom — College, Oxford, is named |
| 56% | LEWIS | 5 | ___ Carroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland" who also worked as a math professor at Oxford University |
| 56% | GOBLINMODE | 10 | Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Year in 2022, describing an unapologetically self-indulgent state |