| MOTIFS | Dominant themes or elements in paintings, textile prints, musical works or artists' oeuvres (6) |
| DETAILS | Minor or distinctive elements in paintings, considered separately for close study; military task forces; a person's particulars; or, trivialities (7) |
| MOTIF | A dominant theme or central idea (5) |
| RAISONNE | Paired with "catalogue", a French term for an annotated systematic index or listing of an artist's oeuvre in a collection or exhibition (8) |
| OPERA | Musical work, or pea soup? (5) |
| THREEPENNYOPERA | Important date holds up vulgar, out-of-print musical play (10,5) |
| SCAMS | Con artist's oeuvre |
| RHYTHM | Describing beat, cadence, flow or tempo in music or a harmonious sequence of colours or elements in art, one of the longest words in the English dictionary without vowels (6) |
| ASPECT | A distinct feature or element in a problem. (6) |
| SMOCKS | Farmers' traditional linen garments with honeycombing; fishermen or artists' overalls; chemises; or, shifts (6) |
| IMPOST | Weights carried by racehorses as handicaps; or, elements forming the pillars of architectural arches/vaults (6) |
| VITALS | The body's internal organs, essential for "life", thus the crucial parts or elements of anything (6) |
| TOPICS | Themes or subjects (6) |
| LEMMAS | What are arguments, themes, or subjects (6) |
| BASICS | The fundamental principles or elements of something (6) |
| STUMPS | Wicket's upright bail-supports; or, artist's tools similar to tortillons (6) |
| MONISM | Doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element (6) |
| SPONGE | Cleaning item in works or paint shop (6) |
| STUDIO | A photographer or artist's workroom (6) |
| BINARY | Consisting of two parts or elements |
