| RIPOSTE | Sally tries out keeping little post office (7) |
| ANTON | and 15dn, 19th-century portrait and landscape artist whose works include The Mandolin Player and The Little Polka Dancer |
| ANTONEBERT | 19th-century portrait and landscape artist whose works include The Mandolin Player and The Little Polka Dancer |
| EBERT | 19th-century portrait and landscape artist whose works include The Mandolin Player and The Little Polka Dancer (5,5) |
| GAINSBOROUGH | English portrait and landscape artist whose works include The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly, Mr and Mrs Andrews and The Blue Boy (12) |
| AGASSE | Animal and landscape artist whose painting The Nubian Giraffe forms part of the Queen's Royal Collection (6) |
| COX | Variety of pippin apple; or, a landscape artist whose paintings include A Welsh Village, Sheep Drover On Windy Day and Going to the Hayfield (3) |
| DELATOUR | Georges ___, painter whose works include The Dice Players and The Fortune Teller (2,2,4) |
| TURNER | Master watercolourist and landscape artist known as the "painter of light" (6) |
| MCREYNOLDS | Jesse ___, Grammy award-winning American bluegrass mandolin player who has been a member of the Gran |
| REYNOLDS | 18th-century portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy |
| TENDULKAR | Mumbai's icon player and the biggest name in cricket in the last three decades |
| HANNAN | Pakistan hockey player, and the AHF Emerging Player in 2023, Abdul ... Shahid. (6) |
| MANETS | "The Fife Player" and "The Balcony" |
| HAND | Bunch of bananas; a pointer on the face of an analogue clock; a round of applause; or, a bridge player and the set of cards they hold (4) |
| STUD | Variety of poker in which the first card is dealt face down before each player and the next four are dealt face up (4) |
| MOGWAI | They provided the soundtrack to Zidane: A 20th Century Portrait (6) |
| BOUZOUKI | A Greek long-necked, stringed musical instrument related to the mandolin (8) |
| CENTRECIRCLE | Where it all kicks off for rugby player and the crowd (6,6) |
| WADE | Retired tennis player and the only British woman to have won titles at all four Majors, Virginia _ (4) |
