| HENRYJAMESAGEE | Author of "A Death in the Family Portrait of a Lady"? |
| TREE | Family portrait, of sorts |
| OLDMANSION | This place could sure use a dusting! And why are all the family portraits looking at me? |
| BETTHEPICTURE | Lost a family portrait in a poker game? |
| AGEE | Author of A Death in the Family (4) |
| JAMES | Depicted in a portrait by John Singer Sargent, a novelist awarded the Order of Merit in 1916 who wrote The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove (5) |
| BANSHEES | Female spirits in Irish legend whose wailing warns of a death in the house (8) |
| OBIT | Commemoration of a death, in brief (4) |
| OBITUARY | A notice of a death including a brief biography of the deceased person (8) |
| ISABEL | What is the first name of Henry James' heroine in The Portrait of a Lady? (6) |
| ISABELARCHER | Eponymous heroine of the 1881 Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady (6,6) |
| HERSHEY | Barbara -, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for The Portrait of a Lady |
| INQUEST | A judicial inquiry into the cause of a death (7) |
| MARQUEZ | Gabriel Garcia, author of Chronicle of a Death Foretold (7) |
| WEYDEN | Van der -; Flemish artist whose works include The Descent from the Cross, Beaune Altarpiece (The Last Judgement) and Portrait of a Lady (6) |
| CAMPION | Jane -; screenwriter whose productions include The Portrait of a Lady and Top of the Lake (7) |
| HEIRESS | Isabel Archer in "The Portrait of a Lady," e.g. |
| STACKPOLE | Henrietta, journalist in The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (9) |
| AGREE | *"A Death in the Family" author James |
| LATENEWS | Report of a death that has just come in? |
