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Invalid new uni students shirk touring North Dakota - NULL AND VOID (invalid) I can see UNI and LL 'Students' and ND 'North Dakota' but there's still a few letters unaccounted for..

Seems to be a boob in the clue to me. You are left with AVOD when you should be left with AVOID (SHIRK). Unless I'm going totally down the wrong track, of course!

looks like, new uni, = N U.??

Yeah thanks Jamoza, I think you're reasoning is right, there does seem to be an 'I' too many (or too few).

I think that't it Trevor, cheers.

If 'new uni' is solved by NU then I would be looking for another compiler's crossword to solve!

New is quite often used to mean N, rather than being the more obvious anagram indicator.
U for University is also not uncommon?

Appreciate your point Trevor but can't see why NEW being represented as N is acceptable - surely things are heading in the wrong direction?

i have come across N = New before but never really questioned it, offhand i can only think of Countries or States that abbr' it,
NZ or NY for example, hopefully there are better examples.

God, in the form of Chamber's, says "N" can stand for "New", but with a capital, which would seem to bear out the geographical use (although there's New Testament for instance too of course). Must say I've met it many times but this clue seems pretty weak anyway:"U" for university (no capital in Ch.!) seems to be just as weak.