College achievement (6 letters)

Linguist Chomsky (4 letters)

Like a stereotypically bad professor (10 letters)

Amaze (3 letters)

Church reading (4 letters)

Learned (7 letters)

A sitter employs one (5 letters)

Noted (7 letters)

Gal's company (3 letters)

It might follow a dot (3 letters)

Douse (7 letters)

Wind sound (4 letters)

Dumbfounded (4 letters)

Novelist born in Thornton, Yorkshire (6 letters)