QC 2915 by Pedro

This is a classic tabloid headline, when a politician is exposed partaking in “sexual high jinks”.

R and O are just the initial letters of Runs Off, nothing more. Perhaps a bit confusing as R for runs is a common cricket abbreviation, so “runs initially off” would perhaps work better.

Mortarboard has a question mark, indicating it is an example of HEADGEAR.

In English ORAL and AURAL are the same aurally. This caused confusion when my French O-level consisted of an Oral test and an Aural test.

The phrase “group of” is doing a lot of work here, a typical galaxy contains about 100 billion stars.

This is “corrupt” as a verb, with subtle slippage to an adjective in the clue.

I had to write out the anagrist after solving to make sure I had all the right bits, as when solving I thought “district” was part of the definition.

MIDDLE ENGLAND is a “socio-political term used to describe a segment of the English population, typically middle-class or lower-middle-class individuals who hold traditional, conservative views.” Usually attributed to Margaret Thatcher, who copied it from Richard Nixon’s “Middle America”.

Since “Disclosure” is a noun, we need “reveal” as a noun for this to work. It is used by magicians, and comedians for the final revelation of something previously kept from an audience.

Tricky, as “cooked” is often also used as an anagram indicator.

I would define HEY as something said to get someone’s attention. Although interjections can be used in lots of ways, if the vowel is elongated to “haaaaaaay!” then that sounds like joyful surprise.

I think this is one of those autological words, like sesquipedalian, which describe themselves.

Fans of symbolic logic may look up Grelling’s paradox when considering self-referential adjectives.

The word Gymnasium comes from the Greek for naked, and is used for a high school in Germany, which can cause confusion when a German graduate applies for a job by boasting of his three years at a Gymnsaium.