| TINTORETTO | Lifelong nickname of the Venetian painter Jacopi Robusti, 1518-1594 (10) |
| BLINDDATES | One of the Venetians goes to meetings for those strangely looking to join union (5,5) |
| TITIAN | Born near the foot of the Dolomites circa 1490, the Renaissance master of the Venetian school whose works include his seven-metre-high Assunta, Bacchus and Ariadne and the Danae series (6) |
| SYRACUSE | Home city of Egeon, father of the Antipholus twins in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (1594) |
| NASHE | Thomas ___, author of the 1594 picaresque novel The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton (5) |
| LINACRE | Thomas --, founder of Royal College of Physicians in 1518 (7) |
| FRANCESCOGUARDI | Italian painter of the Venetian School whose works include the Doge's Feasts series |
| LOTTO | Venetian painter whose Portrait of a Young Man in his Study includes a detail of scattered rose petals thought to allude to the transience of love; or, bingo, a draw or housey-housey (5) |
| UDINE | City at the foot of the Venetian Alps |
| MURANO | Islands at the centre of the Venetian 12 industry (6) |
| BASSANO | Jacopo ___, Italian painter of the Venetian School (7) |
| SILKEN | Soft or lustrous hair; nickname for Thomas, Earl of Kildare who started 1594 rebellion (6) |
| CANALETTO | Venetian painter whose View of the Grand Canal from Palazzo Balbi to the Rialto sold at auction for pound 18.6 million in 2005 (9) |
| PALMA | Venetian painter born Jacopo Negretti, whose many portraits of ladies includes one of a blonde woman holding a posy of buttercups, forget-me-nots and primroses (5) |
| TIEPOLO | Giovanni Battista -; Venetian painter who created The Banquet of Cleopatra (7) |
| LEON | Donna ___, creator of the Venetian detective Guido Brunetti (4) |
| CORFU | Greek island, formerly part of the Venetian empire |
| TACTICIAN | Planner's course of action a Venetian painter announced |
| TAHITIAN | Islander's cry of pleasure welcomed by Venetian painter |
| CARPACCIO | Meat dish named for a Venetian painter known for his frequent use of red |
