| SARTRE | French writer and philosopher |
| VOLTAIRE | French writer and philosopher (1694 1778) |
| SIMONE | French writer and philosopher, ... de Beauvoir |
| DENISDIDEROT | French writer and philosopher of the Enlightenment, chief editor of the 17-volume Encyclopedie (1745-72) |
| JEANPAULSARTRE | French writer and philosopher; one of only two people to turn down a Nobel Prize |
| DEBEAUVOIR | French author and philosopher, Simone ... (2,8) |
| ALBERTCAMUS | 20th Century Algerian-born absurdist French author and philosopher awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 (6,5) |
| BEAUVOIR | Simone de ---, 20th Century French author and philosopher (8) |
| ROUSSEAU | Writer and philosopher sours somewhat on French water? (8) |
| FLATFORDMILL | Painting of dead writer and philosopher |
| TAGORE | Rabindranath -, Indian writer and philosopher |
| IRISMURDOCH | Dublin-born writer and philosopher |
| CAMUS | Clubs briefly entertain writer and philosopher |
| MARQUISDESADE | Cruel and debauched French writer and soldier (7,2,4) |
| RAND | Last name of the Russian-born American writer and philosopher who gained fame with her novel The Fountainhead (1943) |
| RALPH | ___ Waldo Emerson, 19th-century US writer and philosopher (5) |
| BRAVENEWWORLD | 1931 novel by English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley, whose title comes from a line in Shakespeare's The Tempest (5,3,5) |
| COCTEAU | French writer and filmA maker, d. 1963 (7) |
| TAVERNER | Jack embraces French writer and composer (8) |
| MARCEL | ___ Pagnol, French writer and film-maker (6) |
