| IBNGABIROL | Jewish philosopher and poet after whom is named a Tel Aviv street - born around 1020 CE in Malaga, Spain (3,7) |
| IBNGABIRL | Major Tel Aviv street named after the 11th century CE Jewish Andalusian poet and philosopher (3,6) |
| GUGGENHEIM | Solomon R ___, businessman and art collector after whom is named a museum in New York City designed |
| COMMONERA | Meaning of CE in dates (6,3) |
| ECQUIS | "____ hic est? ____ hoc aperit ostium? (Plautus Amphitruo 1020): is anyone here to open the door? |
| MOUND | PlusWord No 1020 |
| FLYTE | Sebastian ___, character in 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel Brideshead Revisited whose teddy bear is named A |
| MAIMONIDES | Seriously damage papers one's holding for Jewish philosopher |
| SPINOZA | Dutch-Jewish philosopher carries little weight in Spain perhaps (7) |
| OMARKHAYYAM | Persian mathematician, astronomer, historian, philosopher and poet (1048-1131), and a cultivar of both a damask rose and saxifrage (4,7) |
| NEFERTITI | Wife and queen of the 14th-century BC Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, a bust of whom is displayed in Berlin's Neues Museum (9) |
| ISRAELI | The ale Sir and I brewed for a Tel Aviv resident (7) |
| WELCH | In the Shawshank Redemption, a poster of whom is on Andy's cell wall at the time of his escape? (5) |
| PITSAW | Cutting tool handled by two people, one of whom is often standing in a hole in the ground |
| ELAL | Airline with a Tel Aviv hub |
| SHREK | Kid-lit character about whom is written "With just a look he cowed the reptiles in the swamp" |
| EMERSON | What was the surname of Ralph, the American philosopher and poet whose middle name was Waldo? (7) |
| AESOP | 'The Phrygian has spoken better than all,' the King of Lydia is supposed to have remarked of this Greek slave born around 620BC who put together stories like The Hare And The Tortoise and The Boy Who |
| HIPPOCRATES | Physician and philosopher born around 460BCE, whose school established medicine as a profession (11) |
| EXT | No. after a tel. no. |