| AFATLOT | An excellent item picked up at auction for not much |
| SOLD | Spain's premier vintage snapped up at auction? |
| GREATER | Comparatively weighty kitchen item picked up (7) |
| SEASHELL | Item picked up by a beachcomber |
| BABYTOOTH | Item picked up by a fairy while you sleep |
| RICHTER | This German painter is known for his diverse painting styles and subjects. He grew up under the shadow of Nazism and then within East Germany. His painting Domplatz, Mailand (1968) sold at auction for |
| OFFER | Bid made at auction for some proffered item |
| BONSAI | Ornamental tree, an example of which once sold at auction for $2 million |
| SNIP | Bargain haberdashery items picked up (4) |
| SNOOPS | Items picked up by consumers upset spies (6) |
| FRANCISBACON | This British painter is known for powerful, predominantly figural images that express isolation, brutality, and terror. His painting Three Studies of Lucien Freud (1969) sold at auction for about $142 |
| ELAINE | "Seinfeld" character who bought JFK's golf clubs at auction for Mr. Peterman |
| TEMPI | Some item picked for various musical speeds (5) |
| PAULCEZANNE | French artist whose "The Card Players" sold at auction for a record $250 million in 2011: 2 wds. |
| VINCENTVANGOGH | Dutch artist whose "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" sold at auction for a record $82.5 million in 1990: 3 wds. |
| GUSTAVKLIMT | Austrian artist whose "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" sold at auction for a record $135 million in 2006: 2 wds. |
| CODEX | - Leicester ; Leonardo da Vinci's scientific musings sold to Bill Gates at auction for $30.8 million in 1994 (5) |
| SOUTHAFRICA | The Blue Moon of Josephine diamond, mined in this country in 2014, was sold at auction for a record $48.4 million in 2015 |
| LEONARDO | First name of the polymath whose Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450 million in 2017 (8) |
| GERHARD | ___ Richter, contemporary artist whose painting "Abstraktes Bild (599)" sold at auction for a record-setting $46.3 million dollars |
