| KATMANDU | Asian capital with Sikh symbol and spiritual essence of the French (8) |
| TAIPEI | Asian capital with a Chiang Kai-shek memorial |
| SALSA | Alas, returns with Sikh leader for a dance (5) |
| DRINK | Fakir led in with Sikh bent down a lot (5,4,1,4) |
| LIKEAFISH | Fakir led in with Sikh bent down a lot (5,4,1,4) |
| TURBAN | Old Muslim not wanting Sikh symbol gets to prohibit ... this? |
| SOUL | Spiritual 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) |
| EQUATION | Chemical___ is a short hand expression of an actual chemical reaction with the help of symbols and formulae (8) |
| MAHJONGG | Game of Chinese origin, played with tiles, or pais, that are similar in physical description to those used in dominoes but engraved with Chinese symbols and characters and divided into suits and honou |
| ETERNITY | Timelessness that's the essence of the Calvin Klein fragrance |
| SIGNPOST | Clue consists of symbol and letters (8) |
| REDCROSS | Humanitarian symbol, and a hint to what happens where the answers to starred clues intersect |
| DONOHARM | Essence of the Hippocratic oath |
| ETHEREAL | Debate conclusion with the genuine and spiritual |
| CHARISMA | Is a charm magical and spiritual power given by God? (8) |
| FORMULAE | Rules expressed in symbols and figures (8) |
| 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? |
| EGOITY | Word for the essence of the self or the state of being an "I" (6) |
| AGA | "___ Khan" - Hereditary title of the religious and spiritual leader of the sect of lsmaili Muslims (3) |
