| Blotch on one's record | 26 |
| Antecedent | 10 |
| Abbot's right-hand man | 26 |
| Abbot's junior | 18 |
| Abbot's aide | 16 |
| Part of a perp's record | 27 |
| Part of a criminal record | 25 |
| Monastic leader | 15 |
| Monastery officer | 17 |
| Earlier offense | 15 |
| Earlier conviction | 18 |
| Before, with "to" | 27 |
| Before (with "to") | 28 |
| Abbot's underling | 21 |
| Something that's on the record? | 35 |
| Record blemish | 14 |
| Rap sheet blot | 14 |
| Rank below abbot | 16 |
| Police record listing | 21 |
| Poet who ridiculed Dryden | 25 |
| Official in a monastery | 23 |
| Monastic V.I.P. | 15 |
| Monastic head | 13 |
| Monastery official | 18 |
| Monastery inhabitant | 20 |
| Happening earlier | 17 |
| English poet-diplomat: 1664-1721 | 32 |
| English poet Matthew | 20 |
| Earlier; previous | 17 |
| Earlier in time (with "to") | 37 |
| Conviction, maybe | 17 |
| Abovementioned | 14 |
| Abbot aide | 10 |
| ___ to (before) | 15 |
| __ to (before) | 14 |
| Commitment | 10 |
| Reason for turning down an invitation | 37 |
| Reason for not attending | 24 |
| Future event that sounds as if it already happened | 50 |
| Booking for a monk? | 19 |
| A ___ (deductive) | 17 |
| A __: logician's term | 25 |
| A ___ (deductively) | 19 |
| A ___ (conceived beforehand) | 28 |
| A __ (deductive) | 16 |
| Like some deductions, with "a" | 40 |
| Kind of reasoning, after "a" | 38 |
| Former, in the Forum | 20 |
| Before analysis, after "a" | 36 |
| A -- (deductively) | 18 |
| A __: valid independent of experience, in logic | 47 |
| A _______ (Latin for "from the former") | 49 |
| A ___ (presupposed by experience) | 33 |
| A ___ (presumptive) | 19 |
| A ___ (kind of reasoning) | 25 |
| A ___ (based on logic) | 22 |
| A ___ (assumed true) | 20 |
| A ___ (already conceived) | 25 |
| What's important | 20 |
| The King's ex | 17 |
| Miles's lost love | 21 |
| Alden's love | 16 |
| Light refractor | 15 |
| Spectrum producer | 17 |
| Spectrum maker | 14 |
| Spectrum creator | 16 |
| Light reflector | 15 |
| Spectroscope part | 17 |
| Polyhedron | 10 |
| Geometrical solid | 17 |
| Color refractor | 15 |
| Bender of rays | 14 |
| Spectrum-showing object | 23 |
| Spectrum-showing device | 23 |
| Refractor | 9 |
| Rainbow creator | 15 |
| Optics device | 13 |
| Light-refracting object | 23 |
| Light-refracting crystal | 24 |
| Light splitter | 14 |
| Light disperser | 15 |
| Light beam splitter | 19 |
| Crystal form | 12 |
| Beam splitter | 13 |
| Thing on the cover of "Dark Side of the Moon" | 55 |
| Spectrum-forming solid | 22 |
| Spectrum-forming crystal | 24 |
| Spectrum revealer | 17 |
| Spectrometer component | 22 |
| Solid figure dispersing light | 29 |
| Refraction device | 17 |
| Refracting object | 17 |
| Refracting glass | 16 |
| Piece of cut crystal, perhaps | 29 |
| Parallelepiped, e.g. | 20 |
| Optics prop | 11 |
| Optics device used by Newton | 28 |
| Optical separator | 17 |
| Optical body used to disperse light | 35 |
| Light-reflecting body | 21 |