### Clue: College head admits out-and-out tendency to flip (9)
### Answer: CRANKNESS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: tendency to flip
RANK (out-and-out) in C[ollege] + NESS (head, geographically) – this is from crank (adj.) = "liable to capsize", so not, as I thought at first, a variant of "crankiness"