| HOMO | "___ Sacer" (Giorgio Agamben book that references the Roman legal concept of the "sacred man") |
| SUI | ____ iuris: Roman legal term, having the rights of free men |
| CORNU | By the horn: ductus ____ stabit sacer hircus ad aram, Virg. Geo. 2.395 |
| NITIDUS | Shining bright: splendidus - ut fons sacer, Ovidii Her. 15.157 |
| SACRUM | Sacer, sacra, ____: a polar adj., not only holy but also wicked |
| ELTON | Zoologist and author of Animal Ecology who was one of the inventors of the concept of the food chain (5) |
| DILIGENCE | Legal concept pertaining to the degree of care that should be exercised, due ... |
| DUCK | Eiderdown, the down feathers of the common eider -- which is a type of this bird -- are used in some quilts and pillows. In Pericles (act 3, prologue) is the following reference: "...the grisly north |
| RAMBLEON | Zeppelin song which references the Lord Of The Rings (6,2) |
| CARDINAL | In the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the Sacred College who ranks next after the pope (8) |
| HANNAHARENDT | German-born philosopher who introduced the concept of the "banality of evil" |
| ONLYFANS | 21st-century site that "helped mainstream the concept of the e-girlfriend," according to a Vox article |
| MONOTHEISM | Belief or doctrine that there is only one God, sometimes considered incompatible with the concept of the Trinity (10) |
| ALFREDADLER | Austrian psychiatrist who developed the concept of the inferiority complex in the early 1900s (6,5) |
| JEOPARDYJEOPARDY | Crime thriller that takes some liberties with its namesake legal concept (1999) |
| INDOCHINA | Colonial name for Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, which references the names of two different nearby countries |
| MARYMACKILLOP | A saint, who co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart? (4,9) |
| TAO | Chinese concept of the natural course of the universe (3) |
| ADLER | Austrian psychiatrist who introduced the concept of the inferiority complex (5) |
| CARLJUNG | Swiss psychologist who developed the concept of the collective unconscious (4,4) |
