Recluse found in woman’s college in Cambridge (6)
I believe the answer is:
hermit
'recluse' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'woman's college in cambridge' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'woman's' could be 'her' (belonging to a woman) and 'her' is located in the answer.
'college' could be 'mit' (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and 'mit' is found in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'found in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hermit that I've seen before include "Ascetic who leads an isolated life" , "One lives an isolated religious life" , "Person like Peter" , "One who lives in solitude, like kind of crab" , "Kind of crab that lives in a cast-off shell" .)