| SPINOZA | Baruch, 17th Century Dutch philosopher, who wrote Ethics (7) |
| ERASMUS | Dutch philosopher who wrote Sileni Alcibiadis in 1515 (7) |
| VERMEER | Johannes _, 17th-century Dutch artist who painted Girl with A Pearl Earring (7) |
| ADVISER | Role Baruch played at D.C. |
| WILLIAM | 17th-century Dutch king of England (7) |
| BERNARD | Statesman financier Baruch |
| HULPERN | Jewish scholar Baruch |
| ELZEVIR | Family of 17th century Dutch printers or the type used on their editions (7) |
| ADONAI | "Baruch atah ___..." (Hebrew prayer start) |
| ACOLD | "... in the midst of __ war": Baruch |
| RARE | 'All things excellent are as difficult as they are ___' - Baruch Spinoza, 1677 (4) |
| APOCRYPHAL | Books of Tobit, Maccabees, Ecclesiasticus, and Baruch, say |
| SEPHARDIC | *Like Abravanel, Isaac Luria, Baruch Spinoza, Maimonides, Nachmanides, Yosef Karo, et al. |
| TASMAN | Abel ___, 17th-century Dutch navigator who circumnavigated Australia (6) |
| LELY | Peter ___, 17th-century Dutch portrait painter who spent his career in England (4) |
| SPINOZABOUT | Boxing match with a Dutch philosopher and ethicist? |
| HASHEM | "Baruch ___!" (Praise God!) (6) |
| EDU | www.baruch.cuny.___ |
| TULIP | Flower traded on 17th-century Dutch stock exchanges |
| TULIPS | Valuable 17th-century Dutch commodities |
