| SPINOZA | "Perfect truth is possible only with knowledge, and in knowledge the whole essence of the thing operates on the soul and is joined essentially to it." He wrote the treatise Ethics. Who is this? |
| USURPERS | "Effective resistance to ___ is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them": Alexander Hamilton (8) |
| ARTS | Branches of knowledge, the |
| BEALL | Whole essence |
| TREETOPS | Word, capturing the essence of the upper reaches of forests, for the canopy-forming crowns of aspens, birches, chestnuts, Douglas firs, elms and all other arboreal woody plants (8) |
| POINTEDOUT | Revealed the essence of the argument by journalist is public knowledge (7,3) |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | A word that mimics the natural sound of the thing it is describing (12) |
| GIST | The essence of the matter is ___ good leader is tip-top (4) |
| ARCHITECT | Designer of the thing seen in sly form of therapy (9) |
| ITSELF | In _: viewed in essential qualities of the thing, perhaps? (6) |
| EVITA | Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical on the life of an Argentinian icon; Mid-Cheshire Musical Theatre Company's production (September 2019) has been nominated for best musical by the National Oper |
| ULISSE | Luigi Dallapiccola's last opera, premiered at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin in 1968 |
| KERYGMA | Praise loudly with emphasis on the essence of the gospel |
| KATMANDU | Asian capital with Sikh symbol and spiritual essence of the French (8) |
| CATCHY | It's the essence of the jingle that's key on yacht at sea (6) |
| FKENNEDY | President Bush written off? Finally, with knowledge and study turned into delight (4,1,7) |
| JOHN | President Bush written off? Finally, with knowledge and study turned into delight (4,1,7) |
| EXCLAMATIONMARK | “Excessive use of ____s is [...] one of the things that betray the uneducated or unpractised writer” (HW Fowler) |
| NSA | Org. filling in the blanks of "cla_de_tine oper_tions" |
| HAIKU | It traditionally captures the essence of the moment |
