| PAPILLON | 1969 memoir by Henri Charriere about his imprisonment at a penal colony in French Guiana |
| TASMANIA | Australian state (26,410 sq miles; pop about 530,000), founded as a penal colony in 1803 (8) |
| BRISBANE | Australian state capital (pop 2.5 million), founded as a penal colony in 1824 (8) |
| VENETIAN | - red; ferric oxide (jeweller's rouge) as a pigment; a colour used by Henri Matisse in some of his paintings (8) |
| DEVILSISLAND | Site of a penal colony here in French Guiana featured in Henri Charriere's memoir Papillon |
| FAUVISTS | Group of mostly French painters led by Henri Matisse who used pure, brilliant colour (8) |
| LABOHEME | Title shared by two operas based on a work by Henri Murger |
| GOLDFISH | Species of carp depicted in paintings by Henri Matisse (8) |
| SANCTION | Countenance a penal embargo on trade (8) |
| BLUENUDE | 1907 oil painting on canvas by Henri Matisse subtitled Souvenir of Biskra |
| HOBART | Australian state capital (pop 200,000), founded as a penal colony in 1804 (6) |
| STOCKADE | A penal camp |
| ANEMONES | "Annelies, White Tulips, and ___": 1944 oil painting by Henri Matisse |
| THEDANCE | Painting of 1910 by Henri Matisse featuring five figures (3,5) |
| DEPROFUNDIS | Title of a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol (2,9) |
| FRENCHGUIANA | Part of the European Union in South America, once home to a penal colony (6,6) |
| NORFOLK | Island in the Pacific Ocean which was a penal colony until 1855 (7) |
| CAYENNE | A city in French Guiana - or a model of Porsche (7) |
| THIRTEENDAYS | A 1969 memoir of the Cuban missile crisis by Robert F Kennedy |
| SYDNEY | Under the enlightened governorship of Lachlan Maquarie (early 19th century), it developed from a penal colony to a thriving town (6) |
