| STRUCTURALISM | Method of interpretation and analysis of language, culture and society (13) |
| SUSANSONTAG | American intellectual and essayist whose works include Against Interpretation and On Photography |
| GOFORASPIN | Choose distorted interpretation and get taken for a ride? (2,3,1,4) |
| READINGS | Interpretations and sources in Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead in filleted Shakespeare works |
| ARCHAEOLOGIST | One who studies past human life through excavation and analysis of artefacts (13) |
| CIVILIZATIONS | The societies, cultures and ways of life of specific areas or periods (6) |
| ARCHAEOLOGY | The study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture (11) |
| STUDY | What is a thorough examination and analysis of a particular subject (5) |
| COVERAGE | Reporting and analysis of an event in the news |
| STUD | Incomplete investigation and analysis of horse-breeding establishment (4) |
| ANECDATA | Evidence derived from personal experience and observation rather than systematic research and analysis |
| PLATITUDE | The first of the poets needs breadth of interpretation ___ that's a truism (9) |
| CLUBROOM | Perhaps where WI members judge a Victoria sponge or plan a fete, old boys and society members chinwag and celebrate and local Rotarians or bridge players debate and pontificate (8) |
| DIAGNOSIS | About to help with secret knowledge and analysis |
| ESPNRADIO | Place to hear game results and analysis |
| GEMATRIA | Something valuable used by courts as a means of interpretation |
| PLATITUDES | Commonplace remarks require breadth of interpretation in the postscript (10) |
| ODYSSEY | Epic story, said to have wise doses of interpretation (7) |
| LATITUDE | Angular distance from the equator requires some breadth of interpretation (8) |
| TRIBES | Groups of (especially primitive) families or communities linked by social, economic, religious or blood ties and usually having a common culture and dialect and a recognized leader |