| DECOUPAGE | Artistic technique using paper cut-outs, much used by Matisse (9) |
| IMPASTO | Artistic technique using thick layers of paint (7) |
| PRESERVER | Museum curator maybe using paper to cover book (9) |
| HUMANRACE | Arena much used by all of us (5,4) |
| AQUARELLE | A row over the French abandoning right artistic technique |
| SHEEPCOTE | Fold paper cut by rogue cop with energy |
| MATISSE | Henri ___, French painter who often used paper cut-outs (7) |
| CONFETTI | Derived from Pagan fertility rituals and the Italian word for sugared almonds, pastel-coloured petals or paper cut-outs traditionally thrown over newlyweds (8) |
| SHAPES | Geometric figures such as crescents, diamonds, kites or pyramids; paper cut-outs; or cookery moulds for blancmange, jelly and other such puddings (6) |
| IRONY | Literary device much used by O. Henry |
| LANCELOT | Weapon much used by a knight (8) |
| RATRUN | Side street much used by cars in rush hours (3,3) |
| MOLTO | It's much used by composers (5) |
| HOFNER | Maker of the "violin" bass guitar much used by Paul McCartney |
| HOOKSANDEYES | Words much used by the boxing commentator - or the dressmaker (5,3,4) |
| INKWELL | Pot much used by old writers still mentioned in advice to printers (7) |
| YIDDISH | What language was much used by Jews in Europe before the Holocaust? (7) |
| FRAGMENT | Piece of paper cut by inferior paper workers |
| PYRAMID | Enlarge one's holdings on an exchange by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts. (7) |
| CALOTYPE | Early photographic process using paper coated with silver iodide, patented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841 (8) |
