| PSY | Study of the mind: Abbr. |
| PSYCHOLOGY | Derived from a Greek word meaning "breath, spirit, soul", the science and study of the mind and behaviour (10) |
| PSYCH | Study of the mind and behavior, for short |
| COG | ___ sci (study of the mind, informally) |
| PSYCHOANALYSIS | Physical son, say, misinterpreted study of the mind (14) |
| FBI | Crime-fighting organization featured on "The X-Files" and "Criminal Minds": Abbr. |
| ESP | Purported power to read minds: Abbr. |
| CREMATION | The whole universe contained the beginning of the mind and the end of the body (9) |
| EGO | In psychoanalysis, the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious (3) |
| ANIMAE | Of the soul - confer et contende 'of the mind' |
| SUBCONSCIOUS | Of the deeper part of the mind |
| PSYCHIATRY | Study of diseases of the mind (10) |
| AMBOY | "Journey to the Center of the Mind" by The ___ Dukes |
| NOT | "What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do - we are told expressly, that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage." Swift, A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (3) |
| FACULTY | One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind (7) |
| LUST | "Curiosity is the __ of the mind": Hobbes |
| WIT | "The noblest frailty of the mind": Shadwell |
| CHESS | "The gymnasium of the mind," to Pascal |
| RATIONAL | Requiring the use of the mind (8) |
| NOMOLOGY | Science of laws of the mind (8) |