Set by Gizmogenes
Across
1 Take to be hypothetical (8)
5 Perhaps Carol's volte-face is secret knowledge (6)
9 In Paris, behind post-modernist who's killed off a US prosecutor before (8)
10 Protestant first eschewed fashion (6)
12 Manner of reasoning that's cold - well, sort of (9)
13 Founding Stoic at first takes wild bear to be African beast (5)
14 Majestic gelding carved out in concrete (4)
16 Dollar to crash - that's stiff (7)
19 What disciple famously wrote to landladies? (7)
21 Edinburgh's foremost Head of Faculty doesn't get article on Paradise (4)
24 Feast from the east in Italian restaurant (5)
25 A branch of philosophy the outcome of these nasty spasms (9)
27 Truant turns on a performance (2-4)
28 Romantic thinker lifts head from bride's chest (8)
29 Orders part of assets acquisition to be returned (6)
30 New Roman, maybe, is kind with puss (8)
Down
1 He can't get enough of commercial maxims, though incomplete (6)
2 Covert Rastafarian rises to shield existentialist (6)
3 Congratulations; Popper's first to vacate lift (5)
4 Friendly bird in legend showing up with ring (7)
6 Ethics and zen are mistakenly linked by this thinker (9)
7 Musician butchers composition (8)
8 Lunatic admires small weapons (4,4)
11 Cold shoulder? Santayana's beginning to get the point (4)
15 Conductor in old Crete arranged Beethoven's Second (9)
17 For philosophers, ideal pick-me-up after a rough lap (8)
18 Dawkins and Grayling sat, squirming around and admitting criminal activity (8)
20 Tory moderates turn up for a ragout (4)
21 A measure of disorder at work in listing (7)
22 Columbia's chief, one with the last word about movies (6)
23 Aquinas's first and final lesson is perceptive (6)
26 Follow it out of bathroom (5)
Answers
Across: 1 Abstract, 5 Gnosis, 9 Derriere, 10 Method, 12 Cartesian, 13 Zebra, 14 Real, 16 Buckram, 19 Letters, 21 Eden, 24 Treat, 25 Esthetics, 27 No-show, 28 Rousseau, 29 Castes, 30 Typeface.
Down: 1 Addict, 2 Sartre, 3 Raise, 4 Cordial, 6 Nietzsche, 7 Schubert, 8 Side arms, 11 Snub, 15 Electrode, 17 Platonic, 18 Atheists, 20 Stew, 21 Entropy, 22 Cinema, 23 Astute, 26 Ensue.
