| BURKE | Edmund ---, Irish-born philosopher and politician who wrote A Philosophical Enquiry (5) |
| EDMUNDBURKE | Irish-born philosopher and politician who wrote A Philosophical Enquiry (6,5) |
| UDALL | Politician who wrote the autobiography "Too Funny To Be President" |
| DOBBS | Life peer, novelist and politician who penned the Francis Urquhart trilogy comprising House of Cards, To Play the King and The Final Cut (5) |
| ARIEL | ____ Sharon, Israeli general and politician who served as his country's eleventh prime minister (5) |
| OBAMA | Politician who wrote "The Audacity of Hope" |
| ILONA | First name of the Italian porn star and politician who goes by Cicciolina |
| TACITUS | Roman historian and politician who wrote the Annals and the Histories (7) |
| STOIC | A philosophical type (5) |
| JOHNBUCHAN | Scottish novelist and politician who wrote The Thirty-nine Steps (1915) |
| OCCAM | Creator of a philosophical "razor" |
| PLATO | Play details to a philosophical luminary |
| METAPHYSIC | System of first principles underlying a philosophical enquiry (10) |
| SHERIDAN | Richard Brinsley -; Irish satirist, playwright and Whig politician who wrote The Rivals and The School for Scandal (8) |
| CONDORCET | Marquis de ___, 18th-century French philosopher and politician whose works include Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind |
| CECILRHODES | English-born mining magnate and politician who founded a state in Southern Africa in the 1890s (5,6) |
| MARIOVARGASLLOSA | Peruvian author and politician who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 (5,6,5) |
| ADAMFERGUSON | Logierait-born philosopher who wrote A History of Civil Society (1767) |
| RALPHREED | Conservative politician who wrote "Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century" |
| HORACEWALPOLE | Art historian and politician who built Strawberry Hill and wrote the novel The Castle Of Otranto (6,7) |
