| XANTHUS | -- Russell Smith, painter best known for his illustrations of the American Civil War (7) |
| ROPS | Felicien --, Belgian artist renowned for his illustrations of the works of Baudelaire |
| TENNIEL | English illustrator known for his illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (7) |
| HONEYBEES | Insects often depicted flying around Winnie-the-Pooh in E. H. Shepard's illustrations of the stories by A. A. Milne (9) |
| LUISROYO | Spanish fantasy artist best known for his illustrations for magazines such as Heavy Metal and George R R Martin's 2014 novelette The Ice Dragon (4,4) |
| ADORE | Greatly love an artist known for his illustrations |
| RACKHAM | Arthur ___, artist noted for his illustrations of fairy tales (7) |
| DAUMIER | French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879). |
| BLAKE | Artist noted for his illustrations of Roald Dahl's characters including the BFG, the enormous crocodile, Muggle-Wump and the Twits (5) |
| BULLRUN | First Battle of ?, first major engagement of the American Civil War, in July 1861 (4,3) |
| ULYSSES | July's session features one of the American Civil War heroes (7) |
| ROBERTE | Confederate General of the American Civil War, ... Lee (6,1) |
| COURAGE | This quality had a red badge in Stephen Crane's classic novel of the American Civil War |
| ROBINSON | W Heath ___, English cartoonist noted for his illustrations of elaborate inventions (8) |
| ESCHER | Dutch artist noted for his illustrations of impossible constructions (6) |
| JANVANEYCK | Flemish painter best known for the altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb in Ghent |
| ARTWORK | Illustrations of couple leading resistance found in old getaway vehicle (7) |
| BENJAMINWEST | London-based American-born painter, best known for The Death of General Wolfe |
| LANDSEER | British painter, best known for The Monarch of the Glen (8) |
| JACKSONPOLLOCK | American abstract expressionist painter best known for his style of drip painting |