| DEBUSSY | Claude --, French creator of impressionism in music (7) |
| POINTILLISM | Technique of painting elaborated from impressionism in which dots of unmixed colour are juxtaposed on a white ground (11) |
| WHIM | Unpredictable idea with impressionism in a marginal sense (4) |
| MORISOT | First lady of Impressionism whose paintings include Eugene Manet on the Isle of Wight, Summer's Day and Hanging the Laundry out to Dry (7) |
| RENOIRS | Some pieces of Impressionism |
| EDOUARD | Manet of Impressionism |
| CHABROL | Claude, French film director (7) |
| MONET | Claude, French painter, the leading exponent of impressionism (5) |
| SUNRISE | Time of day in the title of a Claude Monet painting which gave rise to the name Impressionism (7) |
| CEZANNE | Artist introduced to Impressionism by Pissarro whose works include The Card Players, House in Provence, The Basket of Apples and Bathers sequence (7) |
| SUMAC | Rising French creator of novel spice (5) |
| VERNE | French creator of the character Phileas Fogg (5) |
| JULES | French creator of the character Phileas Fogg (5,5) |
| TATI | Jacques ___, French creator of Monsieur Hulot (4) |
| GOSCINNY | Rene _, French creator of the Asterix comic book series (8) |
| DEGAS | Edgar ___,French artist who was one of the founders of Impressionism (5) |
| SISLEY | Alfred, 19c French painter, one of the originators of impressionism (6) |
| MANET | One of the fathers of Impressionism |
| RENOIR | Pierre Augiste _, French artist who was a leading developer of Impressionism (6) |
| CLAUDE | French painter who is considered the founder of Impressionism (6,5) |
