Possible Clues:

• Study buddies, often
• CLAM with hidden ASSETS, in school
• Very good sporting teams - many in good form perhaps
• Finishes with 17 down and partner's friends from school
• Fellows in education may make kind lovers
• Superior teams, oddly, are those that learn together
• Group on a yearbook page
• Fellow students
• Female spouses by the hundred may be found among one's contemporaries
• Fellow school pals