| BUBBLES | 1886 painting by John Everett Millais originally titled A Child's World (7) |
| THOMAS | Welsh author of poetry, the radio drama Under Milk Wood and the short story illustrated by Edward Ardizzone titled A Child's Christmas in Wales (6) |
| OPHELIA | Painting by John Everett Millais depicting a heroine fallen in a river |
| EDWARDV | Depicted in a painting by John Everett Millais, one of the Princes in the Tower with his brother Richard, Duke of York (6,1) |
| RUSKIN | Depicted in a painting by John Everett Millais and portrayed by Greg Wise in Effie Gray, a Victorian |
| ESTHER | Painting by John Everett Millais depicting a biblical queen (6) |
| ERRANT | The Knight -; painting by John Everett Millais depicting medieval chivalry (6) |
| LOOSESTRIFE | The wetland plant purple ____ is visible in the Ophelia painting by John Everett Millais |
| SUICIDE | Ironically, considering band's name, their third album was titled A Way Of Life (7) |
| MILLAIS | John Everett, 19th Century English painter who was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (7) |
| HOUSMAN | Classical scholar and poet who explores themes of life, loss, love, nostalgia and the beauty of the English countryside in his collection titled A Shropshire Lad (7) |
| PEARS | Advertised with John Everett Millais' painting Bubbles, a brand of soap that founded a cyclopaedia in 1897 (5) |
| SOAP | A painting by Sir John Everett Millais nicknamed "Bubbles" was used to advertise what product? (5,4) |
| GRAY | Effie, Scottish painter married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais (4) |
| EFFIE | ____ Gray, Scottish writer married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais |
| OVE | A Man Called ___ 2012 novel by Fredrik Backman that was adapted into a 2022 movie titled A Man Called Otto |
| WOOF | Word for a dog's bay or yap, afterwhich Allan Ahlberg titled a book about the adventures of a boy who shapeshifts into such a barker (4) |
| YEOMANWARDERS | With an insignia bearing a rose, thistle and shamrock, ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London, popularly (but incorrectly) titled a beefeater (6,7) |
| ITINA | 1986 memoir with a chapter titled "A Fool in Love" |
| GTO | Pontiac model that titled a 64 pop hit |