| KIERKEGAARD | Soren ___, one of the founders of existentialism (11) |
| ALLANCLARKE | With Graham Nash one of the founders of The Hollies (5,6) |
| TABITHARASA | A freshly cleaned Ms. Soren? |
| LUCIANFREUD | British artist, grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis |
| PARISHILTON | American media personality who is a great-granddaughter of the founder of a major hotel group (5,6) |
| SARTRE | French exponent of existentialism, who declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 (6) |
| MARXISTLENINIST | Revolutionary form of existentialism, rejecting originator and embracing our own ends (7-8) |
| NAUSEA | Classic work of existentialism |
| IRAALLEN | One of the founders of Vermont, and leaders of the Green Mountain Boys, with his brother Ethan, and designer of the Great Seal of Vermont. (3,5) |
| ANGST | In existentialism, the general human anxiety of having free will (5) |
| EMO | Genre of the 2004 song Existentialism on Prom Night |
| BARRYGIBB | One of the founders of the puzzle's title group; all the starred entries have the same "initials" |
| EYCK | Jan van ___, one of the founders of the Flemish school of painting (4) |
| EITHEROR | First published work of the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard |
| ARCHIBALD | Which Australian journalist was one of the founders of The Bulletin and made the initial provision f |
| BOOLE | George ___, 19th-century Lincoln-born mathematician regarded as one of the founders of the field of |
| MILLAIS | Surname of an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brot |
| WEBER | One of the founders of modern sociology; or, the German physicist who invented the electromagnetic telegraph with his friend Carl Friedrich Gauss (5) |
| PATERSON | William -; Scottish merchant who was one of the founders of the Bank of England (8) |
| ETHANALLEN | American soldier, leader of the Green Mountain Boys, and one of the founders of Vermont |
