| PORCUPINEQUILLS | An ancient art of Aboriginal people is the embellishment of crafts, such as jewellery, with these ma |
| YACHT | Type of craft such as Rafael Nadal's Beethoven |
| AINU | Member of aboriginal people of Japan |
| ADORNMENT | It's the embellishment of a modern tan (9) |
| CARVING | An ancient art or process of etching ebony, incising ivory, modelling marble, sculpting sandstone, trimming turkey or whittling wood; or, the shaped glyphic piece duly chipped, chiselled, cleaved or c |
| DECOR | Colour-scheme and furnishings form half the embellishment (5) |
| ILLUSTRATIONS | Insults tailor severely for the embellishments (13) |
| DIERI | What is one of the spellings of the name of the Australian Aboriginal people of the Cooper Creek dis |
| MISTRESS | "Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the ___ of Greece and the servant of Rome": Henry Fuseli (8) |
| VOXPOPULIVOXDEI | The voice of the people is the voice of God (Latin) |
| EBOAT | Allied designation of a German torpedo craft such as Schnellboot S130, once the fastest vessel in the world (1-4) |
| CICERO | He wrote "the safety of the people is the highest law" |
| GOOD | 'The ___ of the people is the chief law' (Cicero, 'De Legibus') (4) |
| FIORITURE | From Italian for "blossoming" or "flowering", a florid embellishment of a melodic line, either notated by the composer or improvised at the discretion of an aria/opera singer (9) |
| SCHOONER | Two-masted sailing craft, such as America, after which the America's Cup was named (8) |
| BOAT | A jug for gravy or sauce; a craft such as a clipper, cockleshell or coracle; or, an origami shape (4) |
| SORRY | The 'S' word uttered by Australia's Prime Minister Rudd in his apology to the Aboriginal people of the nation |
| BERTHA | Ms. Allen, Gwich'in activist (b.1934 - d.2010) who advocated for rights of Aboriginal and Northern women, a Member of the Order of Canada |
| AEROSTAT | Lighter-than-air craft such as a balloon or dirigible that derives its lift from buoyancy rather than motive power (8) |
| NORMANBARNETTTINDALE | Who questioned the orthodoxy of the time that Aboriginal people were nomadic and, by tracing dialect |