| THEWATERBABIES | Bathers a bit wee anag) (3,5-6) |
| STINGRAY | Mean to pinch bottom of bather, a swimmer |
| BREATHLESSNESS | Expectancy in bathers lessens, oddly (14) |
| RENOIR | Impressionist whose oeuvre of some 6,000 paintings includes The Cup of Chocolate, The Large Bathers and The Umbrellas (6) |
| INGRES | French classical painter of a number of nude bathers and odalisques, who was also an accomplished violinist (6) |
| SEURAT | Bathers At Asnieres painter (6) |
| SOAP | Common type of TV show a help for bathers |
| TOGS | Nick leaves a stocking and gets his bathers (4) |
| BERYLS | At first, bathers enjoy Welsh resort without hard small stones (6) |
| LIFEGUARD | Upsetting girl, a feud involving person who rescues bathers (9) |
| BREACH | Opening top of bathers on river stretch (6) |
| CEZANNE | Artist from Provence whose paintings include The Basket of Apples, The Bathers, The Peppermint Bottle and Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants (7) |
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| DIPPERS | Ladles; snacks such as goujons for dunking in a sauce; water ouzels, the world's only aquatic songbirds; or, assistants historically employed to help bathers in and out of the sea |
| SEURATS | "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" and "Bathers at Asnieres," for two |
| MATISSE | "Three Bathers" painter Henri |
| IMMERSION | Bathers bypassing short wave current, performing dip (9) |
| BREADTHS | Around 500 bathers swim widths (8) |
| POOLSIDE | Capsized boat spotted, you say, where bathers congregate |
| INSOLENT | Cheeky bathers here off Hampshire? |
