| NATURA | Sequens Lucretium, de rerum qua? |
| NON | Sine qua ? |
| INANE | ____, ~is, n. an empty space, void: saepe apud Lucretium |
| TEMPUS | Id quod fugit, sequens poetam (Virg. Georg. 3.284) |
| LUCRETIUS | Roman poet, author of "De Rerum Natura" |
| CREATRIX | The (female) inventor: "[natura] rerum ... ____" DRN 1.629 |
| SEMINA | Seeds; in Lucretius, ____ rerum is often "atoms" |
| OVID | "Tempus edax rerum" writer |
| AUSPICIUM | Divinatio rerum futurarum, omen ex augurio facto |
| URANIA | Rerum caelestium scientiaeque sideralis Musa |
| NOVITAS | Unexpectedness, newness, eg ____ rerum, revolution |
| TANGUNT | They touch, eg sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia ____, Aen. 1.462 |
| SENTIES | Si olfacies, varios rerum 7 ____ (cf DRN 1.298); you will get the feeling |
| WRITINGPAD | A block, index rerum, jotter, journal, pocketbook or other simple yet note-worthy tool on whose bond or paper one's thoughts and ideas are captured and bound in one's calligraphical hand, pen, scrawl |
| ITHACA | Insula, patria Ulixis et de qua Cavafy cecinit |
| SPONSIO | Foedus, promissum, pactio qua obligamur deo (Cicero de Legibus 2.16.41) |
| HUMOR | ... and his sine qua non |
| RAN | 50 Cent's "Ghetto Qua ___" |
| KEYSTONE | Arch's sine qua non |
| WIT | Art Buchwald's sine qua non |
