| SARTRE | Jean-Paul - - -, French philosopher and writer who refused to accept the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (6) |
| TELL | One who refused to accept tyranny to work as a bank clerk (4) |
| COMTE | Auguste - - -, French philosopher and writer who founded positivism (5) |
| INTERDICT | Ecclesiastical censure, such as that imposed by Pope Innocent III in 1208 after King John refused to accept the new archbishop of Canterbury (9) |
| REVOLTED | Refused to accept the status quo, say |
| TOWNES | Charles Hard -, co-recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics (6) |
| JEANPAULSARTRE | Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (4-4,6) |
| HODGKIN | Dorothy ___, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (7) |
| ROUSSEAU | Jean-Jacques ___, Swiss-born French philosopher and writer noted for works including The Social Contract (1762) (8) |
| PENICILLIN | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize, discovered the structure of this antibiotic which was originally discovered by Alexander Fleming |
| DIDEROT | Denis, 18c French philosopher and author of the play Le Pere de famille (7) |
| VOLTAIRE | French philosopher and writer |
| SIMONE | ___ de Beauvoir, French philosopher and writer (6) |
| DENIS | French philosopher and writer (1713-84) (5) |
| DEBEAUVOIR | and 7dn, , French existentialist philosopher and author whose works include 1949's The Second Sex (6,2,8) |
| MLK | Dr. who won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize |
| CAMUS | French philosopher and author (5) |
| AJAYER | British philosopher and author of the influential 1936 book on logical positivism, Language, Truth and Logic (1,1,4) |
| DISALLOWED | Refused to accept looking sickly - departed to fix it |
| NICCOLOMACHIAVELLI | Italian philosopher and writer best known for The Prince |
