| SIMONE | ___ de Beauvoir, French philosopher and writer (6) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul ___. French philosopher and writer of "Roads to Freedom" trilogy (6) |
| ROUSSEAU | Jean-Jacques --, 1712-78, French philosopher and writer (8) |
| COMTE | Auguste - - -, French philosopher and writer who founded positivism (5) |
| VOLTAIRE | French philosopher and writer |
| DIDEROT | French philosopher and writer (1713-84) (7) |
| DENIS | French philosopher and writer (1713-84) (5) |
| MARCEL | Gabriel --, 1889-1973, French philosopher and dramatist (6) |
| AJAYER | British philosopher and author of the influential 1936 book on logical positivism, Language, Truth and Logic (1,1,4) |
| CAMUS | French philosopher and author (5) |
| PASCAL | Seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician who developed one of the world's first mechanical calculators (6) |
| BILOXI | Site of Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis's last home |
| CHAISELONGUE | Simone de Beauvoir putting her feet up here? (6,6) |
| SIMONES | Writer de Beauvoir et al. |
| EXISTENTIALISTS | Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, e.g. |
| GENDERSTUDIES | Field influenced by Butler and de Beauvoir |
| THESECONDSEX | 1949 work by Simone de Beauvoir, a pioneering feminist text (3,6,3) |
| MODERNTIMES | Chaplin title for which Sartre and de Beauvoir named the publication they founded in 1945 |
| MOI | "J'accepte la grande aventure d'etre ___": Simone de Beauvoir |
| SEX | "The Second ___" (Simone de Beauvoir text) |
