| SPENGLER | Oswald ___, German philosopher whose works include the two-volume The Decline of the West (8) |
| FORTEPIANO | Old source of music in two volumes, the first being bigger |
| AKELA | Chief wolf in Kipling's 2-volume The Jungle Books (5) |
| DEVILS | 'The ------ ', two-volume novel by Ernst Hoffmann completed in 1816 (6) |
| ELIXIR | 'The ------ ', two-volume novel by Ernst Hoffmann completed in 1816 (6) |
| EMBRACE | Include the two that followed me back (7) |
| SCHLEGEL | Friedrich von ___, German philosopher and critic who was a founder of the romantic movement in Germany (8) |
| EITHEROR | First published work of the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, which appeared in two volumes in 1 |
| MAPQUEST | Website that contributed to the decline of road atlases |
| OSWALD | ___ Spengler, author of The Decline of the West (6) |
| HEGEL | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ___, German philosopher whose works include The Phenomenology of Mind |
| SCHOPENHAUER | Arthur ___, German philosopher whose works include The World as Will and Idea (12) |
| NIETZSCHE | Friedrich ___, German philosopher whose works include the 1880's novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra (9) |
| DETERIORATION | The decline of the speech from the dieter (13) |
| SYLVIAPLATH | US-born poetess who wrote the two volumes of verse The Colossus and Ariel, and the novel The Bell Jar (6,5) |
| 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 |
| SUNSET | Decline of the West? |
| MATTER | A gas, liquid, solid or other basic structural component of the universe with a mass and volume; the subject of speech, thought, writing etc; a thing of consequence; or, a concern (6) |
| EDWARD | US writer and artist whose works include 1963 volume The Gashlycrumb Tinies (6,5) |
| CONNIEWILLIS | Sci-fi author whose 2010 two-volume novel Blackout/All Clear won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards: 2 wds. |
