Possible Clues:

• Tense denoting action completed before a specified point of time
• Place ideal to host university is tense
• The tense used in a phrase such as “I thought he had gone”
• Tense female in form after place at university
• Tense learner at university, outwardly faultless
• (In grammar) a tense — per cup left (anag)
• Had been, say, very well done
• Verbal tense
• Tense with 'had' and past participle
• The 'more than past' tense