| EYSENCK | Hans ___, psychologist whose works include 1985's Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire (7) |
| JUNG | Carl ___, psychologist (4) |
| PHIL | "Dr. ___"; psychologist's series |
| HOGARTH | 18th-century artist whose series of eight paintings A Rake's Progress depicts the decline and fall of character Tom Rakewell (7) |
| BELLMER | Hans ___, Surrealist artist whose works include 1933 print La Poupee (7) |
| HOLBEIN | Hans ___ the Younger, German painter noted for his 1533 work The Ambassadors featuring a distorted skull at the front (7) |
| IDCARDS | Comedians who do material on the Freudian psyche? |
| KIERKEGAARD | Soren ___, Danish philosopher, theologian and psychologist whose works include Fear and Trembling |
| WILHELMREICH | Austrian psychologist whose books include The Mass Psychology of Fascism and The Sexual Revolution (7,5) |
| WAUGH | Novelist who wrote in his satire Decline and Fall of the trials of scholar Paul Pennyfeather, wrongly sent down from Oxford after falling victim to the antics of the Bollinger Club (5) |
| INFALLIBLE | “Corruption, the most ____ symptom of constitutional liberty” (Edward Gibbon in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) |
| THORNDIKE | Psychologist whose study of the learning ability of hungry cats to escape from his "puzzle box" invention contributed towards our understanding of how habits are formed and his "law of effect" (9) |
| GIBBON | Historian who chronicled the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (6) |
| CLOSE | Chuck ___, US photorealist painter whose works include 1985's Fanny/Fingerpainting (5) |
| US | The decline and fall of the ___ empire |
| EDWARDGIBBON | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire author |
| SUPEREGO | Part of the Freudian unconscious (8) |
| EGO | Part of the Freudian psyche |
| IDS | Parts of the Freudian psyche |
| MATHESON | Hans ___, Scottish actor whose roles include Aeskylos in 2014 action film 300: Rise of an Empire (8) |
