| CIVILLIBERTY | Personal freedom of thought, word or action (5,7) |
| IDEO | "Thought" word form |
| CONSTRUE | Interpret a word or action in a particular way (8) |
| OBSCENITY | Offensive word or action (9) |
| IDEAS | Notions or thoughts word craze |
| OBLOQUY | Malicious misrepresentation of a person's word or actions (7) |
| DELIBERATION | Journalist's backflip on freedom of thought (12) |
| LATITUDE | Angular distance north or south, thus one's degree of personal freedom or room to manoeuvre (8) |
| PLATITUDE | Commonplace to put pressure on freedom of thought (9) |
| UNLIBERAL | Restricting freedom of thought |
| IRONS | Devices restricting personal freedom in prisons or clubs (5) |
| RUSSELL | Philosopher who won the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature for his humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought, Bertrand... |
| SPACE | Gap between printed words; personal freedom; or, the region beyond the Earth's atmosphere (5) |
| LIBERTY | Personal freedom from servitude (7) |
| HUMANRIGHTS | Requirement for personal freedom -- tricky to make him trash gun (5,6) |
| CIVILRIGHTS | Citizens' personal freedom (5,6) |
| REPRESSIVE | Restraining personal freedom |
| ACLU | Nonprofit group devoted to personal freedoms: Abbr. |
| SPEED | Rate of motion or action; each one of a bike's gear ratios; or, an old word for success or prosperity (5) |
| GROUNDS | Campus, estate, gardens, park or other land collectively surrounding a castle, large country house or university; coffee bean sediment; or, the basis of justification or action (7) |
