| HUME | "A Treatise of Human Nature" philosopher David |
| DAVIDHUME | Scottish philosopher, author of A Treatise of Human Nature (5,4) |
| MORALS | Subject in Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" |
| HUMESWEETHUME | 'David, my precious philosopher David ...'? |
| LOCKEPICKING | 'Two Treatises of Government' philosopher making a choice? |
| EMPIRICISM | Doctrine associated with philosopher David Hume (10) |
| ECON | Field for the philosopher David Hume, informally |
| CYNIC | One with a low view of human nature (5) |
| ANIMALS | From the Latin meaning "air, breath, life, soul" and described in a major Aristotelian treatise of zoology, organisms forming Earth's fauna (7) |
| LOCKE | Philosopher who wrote Two Treatises of Government in support of the Glorious Revolution (5) |
| HUMERUS | It sounds funny, but philosopher David annexed Route Utilisation Strategy initially, and was given the elbow? (7) |
| THECONSTITUTION | The law of our land, crafted by our founding fathers who showed amazing foresight and understanding of human nature |
| ANIMALINSTINCTS | *Elemental parts of human nature |
| EARTHBORN | Abhorrent condition of human nature (9) |
| CHARACTER | Distinctive example of human nature (9) |
| CYNICAL | Believing the worst of human nature (7) |
| MANNA | It's part of human nature to feed the starving (5) |
| FLESHANDBLOOD | Two constituents of human nature (5,3,5) |
| MANHOOD | Masculine quality of human nature (7) |
| ANNA | Tolstoy heroine is at the heart of human nature (4) |
