| SPINOZA | Dutch philosopher and theologian, the great seventeenth century Rationalist thinker (7) |
| GALILEOGALILEI | Full name of the great 17th-century Italian astronomer (7,7) |
| ISAACNEWTON | Great 17th-century English scientist (5,6) |
| ERASMUS | Dutch philosopher and scholar of the 15th and 16th centuries (7) |
| ABELARD | Peter ---, medieval French scholastic philosopher and theologian (7) |
| AQUINAS | St Thomas, philosopher and theologian (7) |
| SADDEST | Sets out to include a theologian, the more sorrowful (7) |
| ECKHART | Mystic theologian the rack tortured |
| LEIBNIZ | German rationalist philosopher (7) |
| OTHMAYR | Caspar ?, 16th-century German composer and theologian whose works include There is a Snow Fallen (7) |
| HOPKINS | United States educator and theologian, Mark (1802-1887) (7) |
| ERASTUS | Thomas --, Swiss physician and theologian (7) |
| SKEPTIC | Rationalist |
| SORENKIERKEGAARD | Danish philosopher and theologian whose works include Either/Or and The Concept of Dread |
| WYCLIFFE | John ___, English philosopher and theologian who made an early translation of the Bible |
| SPINOZABOUT | Boxing match with a Dutch philosopher and ethicist? |
| ORIGEN | Early philosopher and theologian |
| KIERKEGAARD | Soren ---, 19th-Century Danish philosopher, psychologist and theologian considered to be the first existentialist (11) |
| SKEDADDLE | Asked about theologian, the French take flight (9) |
| HIDDEN | Obscure fowl gives one theologian the run-around (6) |
