| APPEL | Cobra group artist remembered for vibrant works such as Questioning Children and Hip, Hip, Hoorah! ( |
| INTERVIEWER | Writer even I misrepresented as questioning journalist |
| GRANT | Bloomsbury Group artist whose paintings include Farmyard Buildings at Charleston, Sussex and Still Life with a Bust of Vanessa Bell (5) |
| POLICECONSTABLE | 80s rock-group artist is rank, according to some (6,9) |
| BELL | Bloomsbury Group artist born Vanessa Stephen; sister of Virginia Woolf (4) |
| TENNIEL | Victorian artist remembered for his political cartoons in Punch and for illustrations in Lewis Carroll's novels about the adventures of Alice (7) |
| KEENE | Artist remembered for his black and white illustrations in Punch (5) |
| MASACCIO | Born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, Italian artist remembered for his frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel including The Tribute Money and St Peter Healing the Sick with His Shadow (8) |
| TERESA | Spanish saint and author famous for her mystic visions and for works such as Book of the Foundations and The Interior Castle (6) |
| GRIGG | Artist remembered for Korky the Cat (5) |
| MACKINTOSH | Charles Rennie -; artist remembered for his design of a building at the Glasgow School of Art damaged by a fire in 2014 (10) |
| MATISSE | French artist and member of the Fauves noted for use of colour in works such as Dance, Music, The Joy of Life and his series of cut-outs (7) |
| CRABBE | A rector of Muston in the Vale of Belvoir as well as a surgeon, poet and coleopterist whose works such as The Village and The Borough were esteemed by Tennyson (6) |
| RUSTY | Old word for vibrant red that transformed into one for corroded or oxidised; or, stiff from age/disuse, like a ferruginous bucket, aka old banger (5) |
| MINOGUE | Artist remembered in part for her 2005 album, 5 (5,7) |
| KYLIE | Artist remembered in part for her 2005 album, 5 (5,7) |
| TURNER | Oil painter and watercolourist noted for treatment of light in works such as East Cowes Castle, Engl |
| ALLINGHAM | Victorian water-colourist noted for her depictions of rural England and cottages in works such as Th |
| ENCYCLOPEDIAS | Reference works such as Natural History by Pliny, Britannica or modern electronic versions such as E |
| TIMWINTON | Australian novelist acclaimed for works such as Cloud Street and Breath (3,6) |