| EPICURUS | Influential Greek philosopher (341-270 BC) who established his own school ("The Garden") in Athens (8) |
| ACADEMY | The ___: school founded by Plato, which Aristotle attended before setting up his own school, the Lyceum (7) |
| EPICUREAN | A follower of a Greek philosopher (341-270 BC) ; a gourmet (9) |
| RACKHAM | British artist who established his reputation with his illustrations in Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, first published in 1900 (7) |
| LYCEUM | Garden in Athens where Aristotle taught |
| WHITEHALL | Main site of 'ngland's government offices since Henry VIII established his palace there in 1530 (9) |
| HOLDUPONESHEAD | Show confidence - mug principal of own school |
| SECT | Insects have their own school of opinion (4) |
| LOCK | "___, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998 feature debut for 12-Across, which established his reputation as a director) |
| GETHSEMANE | In the New Testament, the garden in Jerusalem where Christ was betrayed on the night before his Crucifixion (10) |
| ARISTOTLE | Greek philosopher (384 - 322 BC), who founded the Lyceum at Athens (9) |
| PHIDIAS | Greek sculptor of the 5th century BC who directed the carving of the Elgin Marbles (7) |
| EDEN | In the Old Testament, the garden in which Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation (4) |
| PERICLES | Prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age, subject of a play written at least in part by William Shakespeare |
| PTOLEMY | Influential Greek astronomer and geographer of the 2nd century AD; author of the Almagest and Geography (7) |
| LYSANDER | Admiral (d 395 BC), who led the Spartans to victory in the Peloponnesian War (8) |
| IKTINOS | Athenian architect of the 5th century BC who co-designed the Parthenon with Callicrates and the sculptor Phidias (7) |
| HOMER | Greek poet of the 8th Century BC who wrote two epic poems that shaped ancient Greek culture (5) |
| TIM | "And if I kiss you in the garden in the moonlight, will you pardon me? Come tiptoe through the tulip |
| CATSWHISKERS | Provides the canap's and champagne welcoming school - the one employed in the kitchen by the receivers (3'1,8) |
