| PERARDUAADASTRA | "Drama doesn't have to go to bed with high art", as a rude RADA motto |
| SLAP | Smack as a rude person's cheek |
| ANKH | Tau cross with a loop for its upper arm, used in ancient Egyptian art as a symbol of life (4) |
| APOLLO | Greek god of art and music depicted in art as a beardless youth (6) |
| NIGELLA | Did Slater have to go to a US city to find Lawson? (7) |
| LIEDOWN | 'A Song for Europe'? Have to go to bed! (3,4) |
| THEGOOD | Shamelessly go to bed with Hook - a basis for many an oath (3,4,4) |
| TURNINGDOWN | Refusing to go to bed with dress hiding top of duvet |
| HITSTHEHAY | Goes to bed with hasty husband - he's desperate to have sex (4,3,3) |
| GOLDFINCH | Any one of a charm of thistledown-eating Jack Nickers, King Harrys, redcaps or yellowbirds appearing in Pennsylvanian Dutch folk art as a stylised "distelfink" (9) |
| PSYCHE | Beloved of Eros (or Cupid) represented in art as a butterfly (6) |
| WIDOW | I'd entered the World of Wearable Art as a dowager (5) |
| UPSTART | Puts art as a priority? How pretentious and vulgar he is! (7) |
| ARP | Sculptor who described art as "a fruit that grows in man" |
| ICECAP | You'll have to go to the ends of the earth to find this top hat (3,3) |
| THIRST | Globe falls off strobe light? You'll have to go to the bar to sort out that problem! (6) |
| OBLIGATED | Constrained to go to bed with Gila monster (9) |
| BONETOPICK | Having covered just the beginning of easy subject, go to bed with an unresolved grievance (4,2,4) |
| SLEEPINGPARTNER | He'll go to bed with you, but his involvement is strictly financial |
| TYRANNOUS | Sonnet 131: Thou art as ___, so as thou art, / As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; / For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart / Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel. |
