| PORTRAITPAINTER | Artist developing trite pop art in Royal Academy |
| ROTUNDA | Duke after round cask in Royal Academy building |
| RHEA | Large bird, male, displayed in Royal Academy (4) |
| INAMORATA | Lover shortly taking time in Royal Academy area |
| CAFETERIA | Where one may eat around event, one in Royal Academy |
| RUMBA | Posh doctor involved in Royal Academy dance |
| RAISE | Lift is found in Royal Academy close to cafe (5) |
| HOCKNEY | British painter, prominent in pop art in the 1960s, who produced a 2022 painting of singer Harry Stiles (7) |
| PARTING | Making separate section for pop art in gallery (7) |
| THEATRE | You once put pop art in a dramatic setting (7) |
| PANTOGRAPH | Scaler to hang pop art in no particular order (10) |
| UPTOPAR | Turn to Pop Art in order to reach usual level (2,2,3) |
| REYNOLDS | First president of the Royal ' Academy and leading portraitist of his day who set out his theories on art in a series of 15 lectures published in Discourses on Art (8) |
| TREE | Herbert Beerbohm - - -, actor and theatre manager who founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1904 (4) |
| ALFREDMUNNINGS | British artist famous for his paintings of horses; president of the Royal Academy of Art (1944-9) |
| SALON | Any one of the official art exhibitions held in Paris from 1667 under the auspices of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (5) |
| LASTSUPPER | With "The": Iconic 1498 Leonardo Da Vinci painting to which Just Stop Oil protesters glued themselves at London's Royal Academy of Art in July |
| TRACEYEMIN | Artist from Royal Academy caught viewer in Tate Modern, initially with it (6,4) |
| REGAL | Organ for example taken in by Royal Academy student |
| APARTMENT | Fellows of the Royal Academy housed in suitable accommodation |