| ROUSSEAU | Jean Jacques ___ (1712-78), French philosopher who wrote Emile (1762) (8) |
| VOLTAIRE | French philosopher who wrote "Candide" |
| NEWCOMEN | Thomas ___, English engineer who developed a practical, commercially successful, steam engine in 1712 (8) |
| FANDANGO | Lively Spanish courtship dance first recorded in 1712, traditionally accompanied by castanets, hand-clapping and guitars (8) |
| JOHNBULL | National personification of England, popularised by Scottish satirist John Arbuthnot in 1712 (4,4) |
| SOREL | French philosopher who wrote "Reflections on Violence" |
| CAMUS | French philosopher who wrote "The Stranger" |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul, French philosopher who authored the 1943 play The Flies (6) |
| DESCARTES | French philosopher who thought SS created mayhem (9) |
| COMTE | Auguste (1798-1857), French philosopher who founded positivism and coined the term sociology (5) |
| DIDEROT | Denis, French philosopher who served as chief editor of the Encyclopedie (7) |
| BERGSON | Henri Louis, French philosopher who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature (7) |
| BEINEIX | Jean-Jacques ___, director of the films Diva and Betty Blue (7) |
| RENEDESCARTES | French philosopher who invented analytic geometry |
| CORELLI | Arcangelo, Italian composer of a 1712 Christmas Concerto (7) |
| POPE | Writer of the 1712 poem The Rape of the Lock (4) |
| SPECTATOR | 'The ---', periodical conducted by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison from March 1711 to December 1712 (9) |
| STEAMENGINE | Device of which Thomas Newcomen built the first practical version in 1712 (5,6) |
| EMILE | Eponymous boy of a 1762 treatise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| STPETERSBURG | Capital of Russia from 1712 until 1918 |
