| AYER | Tutored by Gilbert Ryle, author of Language, Truth and Logic who was a Wykeham Professor and a British Humanist Association president (4) |
| SAVE | Punk rockers The Sex Pistols had a highly controversial hit, its title taken directly from the Briti |
| THEGHOSTINTHEMACHINE | Phrase coined by philosopher Gilbert Ryle, used by Arthur Koestler in a 1967 book title |
| AJAYER | British philosopher and author of the influential 1936 book on logical positivism, Language, Truth and Logic (1,1,4) |
| WINCHESTER | City, site of a school founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 with the motto "manners makyth man" (10) |
| ONDAATJE | Author whose novel The English Patient was adapted into a film starring actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (8) |
| ALEXANDER | ___ the Great, king of Macedon tutored by the philosopher Aristotle until the age of 16 |
| PROLOG | The name of which 1970s computer language was formed from the words programming and logic? (6) |
| HEWISH | Radio astronomer co-awarded a Nobel Prize with Martin Ryle for his role in the discovery of pulsars (6) |
| HOSTELRY | Master of ceremonies and Ryle cavorting in pub (8) |
| ELIXIR | In essence, Ryle on the radio retires over number of players in football team (6) |
| JUSTINBALDONI | Jane the Virgin actor who plays Ryle in It Ends With Us: 2 wds. |
| NERO | Ruler tutored by Seneca |
| ELGRECO | Painter tutored by Titian |
| ASTRONOMERS | Sir Martin Ryle and Fred Hoyle were noted British ones (11) |
| RHETORIC | Part of the trivium, along with grammar and logic |
| SEMANTICS | Branch of linguistics and logic |
| TRIVIUM | Grammar, rhetoric, and logic, as an introductory course at a medieval university |
| TRAININGCOLLEGE | Where people were educated in general, and logic to a T (8-7) |
| RANULPH | Sir -- Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, English explorer (7) |
