| TENIERS | "The Alchemist" artist |
| WRIGHT | Joseph - of Derby; artist whose paintings include The Blacksmith's Shop, The Orrery and The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus (6) |
| COELHO | Paulo ?, author of novels Adultery, The Zahir and The Alchemist (6) |
| BENJONSON | Writer of the comedy play The Alchemist (3,6) |
| PAULOCOELHO | Best-selling author of "The Alchemist" whose books, per one critic, "anesthetiz[e] . . . through the consoling reaffirmation of conventions" |
| PAULO | Brazilian author who wrote the 1988 novel The Alchemist, _ Coelho (5) |
| JONSON | Surname of the dramatist whose works include Volpone and The Alchemist (6) |
| UPTOONESGOLDTRICKS | What the alchemist was accused of being? |
| OASIS | Place of refuge in "The Alchemist" |
| HEAL | The alchemist conceals cure |
| COMMON | Prostitute in Ben Jonson stage play The Alchemist |
| ALEPH | First Hebrew letter; or, a novel by The Alchemist author Paulo Coelho (5) |
| DOL | Prostitute in Ben Jonson stage play The Alchemist (3,6) |
| ASGOODASGOLD | Something the alchemist is looking for is not bad! (2,4,2,4) |
| ALKAHEST | Hypothetical universal solvent sought by the alchemists, originating in the writings of the Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493-1541) (8) |
| ALCAHEST | The universal solvent of the alchemists (8) |
| LEAD | Very malleable, ductile, and dense metal that is a poor conductor of electricity. Known in antiquity and believed by the alchemists to be the oldest of metals. Highly durable and resistant to corrosio |
| AZOTH | From Persian for "quicksilver", the alchemists' name for mercury; or, the panacea postulated by occultist and "father of toxicology" Paracelsus (5) |
| DEE | River that rises in the Cairngorms and flows eastwards through Braemar and the Balmoral Estate to the North Sea; or, an alchemist who was Elizabeth I's court astronomer (3) |
| OSTADE | Dutch artist whose works include Peasants in a Tavern, An Alchemist, The Painter in His Workshop and A Cobbler (6) |
