| PLATO | Philosopher who wrote the 'The Republic' |
| RAMSAY | Wig-maker and poet who founded Britain's first circulating library and wrote the The Gentle Shepherd and compilation of Scots songs The Tea- Table Miscellany (6) |
| TROYPARROTT | Former Tottenham Hotspur footballer whose five goals in two matches recently took the the Republic of Ireland football team into the 2026 FIFA World Cup play-offs (4.7) |
| RYLE | English philosopher who wrote The Concept of Mind and coined the phrase "ghost in the machine" (4) |
| MURDOCH | Iris ---, author and philosopher who wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea (7) |
| IRISMURDOCH | Author and philosopher who wrote the Booker Prizewinning novel The Sea, The Sea (4,7) |
| MARX | Philosopher who wrote, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it" |
| SARTRE | Philosopher who wrote the preface to Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth" |
| HEGEL | German philosopher who wrote "The true is the whole" |
| MACHIAVELLI | Niccolo - - -, Florentine statesman and political philosopher who wrote the 16th Century treatise The Prince (11) |
| BENTHAM | Jeremy, English philosopher who wrote the 1789 work Introduction To The Principles 0f Morals And Legislation (7) |
| JEREMYBENTHAM | English philosopher who wrote the 1789 work Introduction To The Principles Of Morals And Legislation (6,7) |
| ARENDT | Philosopher who wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism |
| SPINOZA | Baruch -; Dutch philosopher who wrote the treatise Ethics (7) |
| LAOTSE | Chinese philosopher who wrote the "Tao Te Ching" |
| ERASMUS | Dutch philosopher who wrote "The Praise of Folly" |
| CAMUS | Philosopher who wrote "The Plague" |
| ROUSSEAU | Jean-Jacques, political philosopher who wrote The Social Contract (8) |
| DANTE | Italian poet and philosopher who wrote The Divine Comedy (5) |
| LAOTZU | Philosopher who wrote the "Tao Te Ching" |
