| TINT | Colour encapsulated by Fauvist in theory |
| VISTA | Pleasing view captured by Fauvist artist (5) |
| RAOULDUFY | French Fauvist painter who received the grand prize for painting in the 26th Venice Biennale in 1952 (54) |
| DERAIN | French Fauvist painter born in 1880 of Westminster Bridge (1907) |
| DUFY | French painter and textile designer noted for colourful works in the fauvist style including Open Window, Nice, The Wheatfield, Chateau and Horses, Regatta at Cowes and Anemones (4) |
| MATISSE | Fauvist or "wild beast" Henri, whose collage, cut-out or gouache decoupee The Snail consists of a spiral of shapes in black, blue, green, lilac, orange, purple, red and yellow (7) |
| HENRIMATISSE | French artist born in 1869, connected to the Fauvist and Modernist movements (5,7) |
| HENRI | Fauvist painter Matisse |
| RAOUL | French Fauvist Dufy |
| ART | Fauvists' forte |
| PELLET | Female in Paris encapsulated by part in small ball (6) |
| FABIOCAPELLO | A life with distinction in international football encapsulated by man in short ___ me? (5,7) |
| LONGJUMP | Name encapsulated by record start in athletic contest (4,4) |
| CONCEIT | Pride in the past, encapsulated by short quote |
| FLAIR | Original character in lady encapsulated by bright talent (5) |
| SEW | Work in the clothing factory encapsulated by prose writer (3) |
| TITIAN | One encapsulated by colossus in Venetian artist (6) |
| ACUMEN | Copper encapsulated by the last word in shrewdness (6) |
| APOLOGISE | Express regret in a diary encapsulated by balance (9) |
| SADISM | Love of cruelty in the modern era is encapsulated by Stalin and Mao primarily |
