| SPENGLER | Oswald ---, German philosopher best known for his The Decline of the West |
| DOISNEAU | French photographer best-known for his The Kiss at the Hotel de Ville (8) |
| STOPPARD | He won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play for his The Coast Of Utopia, Tom ... |
| LARSON | Gary, U.S. cartoonist famous for his The Far Side comic strip (6) |
| OSWALD | ___ Spengler, author of The Decline of the West (6) |
| DETERIORATION | The decline of the speech from the dieter (13) |
| GOVERNMENTBIOLOGIST | Farley Mowat's 1963 book Never Cry Wolf is about his time as a ___ ___ studying the decline of the Caribou population in northern Canada |
| HOBBES | Thomas, English philosopher best known for the 1651 work Leviathan (6) |
| THOMAS | English philosopher best known for his Leviathan (6,6) |
| LOCKE | John ___, English philosopher best known for his Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
| MACHIAVELLI | Italian political philosopher, best-known for a book published five years after his death |
| EAVESDROP | Report of the decline of first female spy |
| SUNSET | The decline of our most well-known star? (6) |
| TOLKIEN | Author and philologist whose "Tea Club and Barrovian Society" allegiance during his school days inspired the nine-member Fellowship in his The Lord of the Rings novel (7) |
| KERNAGHAN | Who in 2022 celebrated the 30th anniversary of his The Outback Club album and the iconic smash hit single Boys from the Bush? (9) |
| DINNERTABLE | In 2017 Kirsty Allsopp spoke of the decline of this furniture item, calling fewer family meals together a "real loss" |
| SPEECH | Bernie Sanders's "The ___: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class" |
| TVS | Some say they caused the decline of reading |
| SHORTED | Bet on the decline of, as a stock |
| ALONE | "Bowling ___," seminal social science book about the decline of civic engagement |
