| NIGHTWATCH | Common name for Rembrandt's The Shooting Company of Franz Banning Cocq |
| REMBRANDT | 17th-century Dutch painter of works including The Shooting Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (1642) |
| OLDMASTER | Clumsy model sat for Rembrandt's first great painting (3,6) |
| DRAFT | Silly frame for Rembrandt's capital sketch |
| VIENNA | Austrian capital, birth city of Franz Schubert, home of Mozart, Beethoven and the Strauss family, site of the palace and gardens of Schonbrunn (6) |
| BLANKCHECK | Erase the report of Franz Kafka for one - carte blanche for the Americans! (5,5) |
| ETCHING | Rembrandt's The Virgin And Child With A Cat is an example of this type of engraved artwork |
| RIJKSMUSEUM | Home of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" |
| EDWIN | Anglo-Saxon king of Northumbria; or, the first name of an Orkney-bom poet who translated many of Franz Kafka's novels with his wife Willa (5) |
| RAPE | Rembrandt's "The ___ of Europa" |
| DRYPOINT | An etching needle by which fine lines are drawn to leave an engraving/ burr on a copperplate; or, the print or impression, such as Rembrandt's The Three Crosses, so produced (3-5) |
| NIGHTWATCHMEN | When Rembrandt painted The Company of F.B. Cocq (1642), what did he paint? (5,5,3) |
| OIL | Rembrandt's "The Night Watch," e.g. |
| SARAJEVO | Scene of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 which precipitated World War I (8) |
| SLAV | Rembrandt's "The Noble ___" |
| ELSIE | Lily ?, actress born Elsie Hodder who created the title role in 1907 English language version of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow (5) |
| EMPERORWALTZ | 1888 composition by Johann Strauss in honour of the 40th anniversary of Franz Josef's accession (7,5) |
| PREWWI | Like the time of Franz Ferdinand's reign |
| THECASTLE | The last novel of Franz Kafka (3,6) |
| WWI | Conflict that began in the wake of Franz Ferdinand's assassination: Abbr. |
