| SIGMUND | First name of the neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis who is depicted in A Dangerous Method (7) |
| CASSEL | French actor who co-starred with Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen in A Dangerous Method, Vincent - (6) |
| FREUD | Austrian physician and founder of psychoanalysis |
| ABBAEBAN | Statesman who was cousins with the neurologist Oliver Sacks |
| KEIRA | A Dangerous Method star Knightley |
| OSBERT | A forename of the author of A Place of One's Own who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his parents and his siblings Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell (6) |
| SITWELL | Author of an autobiography that ran into five volumes who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell (7) |
| CAMDEN | Antiquary and former headmaster of Westminster School who is depicted in a bust in Westminster Abbey with one hand on his great survey Britannia (6) |
| RENNIE | John -; engineer who designed the original Waterloo Bridge, the opening of which is depicted in a painting by John Constable (6) |
| SOCRATES | Greek philosopher known through the writings of Plato and Xenophon whose death by hemlock poisoning is depicted in a painting by Jacques-Louis David (8) |
| EUTERPE | One of the nine Greek muses, who is depicted holding a flute (7) |
| HANNIBAL | Carthaginian general whose crossing of the Alps by elephant is depicted in a painting by Turner (8) |
| ROGERBANNISTER | English neurologist and athlete who ran the first sub-4 minute (3 minutes 59.4 seconds) mile in 1954 (5,9) |
| MARAT | French revolutionary leader whose assassination in a bath by Girondin sympathiser Charlotte Corday is depicted in a painting by Jacques-Louis David (5) |
| PEAFOWL | Large male or female crested pheasant whose ostentatious vain display is depicted in a slow stately dance aptly called the pavane (7) |
| IRIS | Who is depicted as goddess of the rainbow in Greek mythology? (4) |
| PHOENIX | Mythical bird symbolising rebirth that is depicted in one of the portraits of Elizabeth I attributed to Nicholas Hilliard other than the 'Pelican' (7) |
| AUDEN | The poet is depicted in a nude version |
| DOCTORS | Those trained in the science of the brain, like neurosurgeons, neurologists and psychiatrists |
| TREE | Actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm whose adventurer, poet, socialite daughter Iris is depicted in a portrait by painter Augustus John (4) |
