| VERMEER | Dutch Golden Age artist who painted The Milkmaid, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Lacemaker and The Astronomer (7) |
| ENYA | New Age artist who often sings in Irish |
| CAVALIER | The Laughing ____ , noted portrait by Dutch Golden Age artist Frans Hals (8) |
| STEEN | Dutch Golden Age artist |
| HOOPLA | "Fanfare" equivalent formed by a circular earring + the note between "sol" and "ti" |
| STUDY | Learn about small earring, the latest in jewellery (5) |
| DEHOOCH | Dutch Golden Age painter noted for depictions of domestic life such as The Courtyard of a House in Delft, Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room and A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy (2,5) |
| DETAIL | Small part of a painting studied separately, such as the tiny Cupid in Vermeer's The Milkmaid (6) |
| REMBRANDT | Artist of the Dutch Golden Age who painted The Night Watch (9) |
| TULIPOMANIA | Well-documented period in the dutch Golden age fuelled by the obsessive desire for the same spring-flowering bulb (11) |
| LIAMNEESON | The Next Three Days and The A-Team star (2 wds.) |
| HANNIBAL | Leader of the Carthaginians - and the A-Team (8) |
| THENIGHT | --- --- Watch, 1642 painting by Rembrandt, a famous work of the Dutch Golden Age (3,5) |
| LOUVRE | Where art Vermeer's 'The Lacemaker'? |
| LADYSSMOCK | With the Latin epithet Cardamine pratensis, "meadow cress", a cuckoo flower, fairy flower, Lucy locket or milkmaid with pale-lilac or rose-pink apparently dress-like petals (5-5) |
| RADHA | Gopi (milkmaid) in Hindu mythology who was the favourite consort of the god Krishna (5) |
| GIEDROYC | Mel, comedian who impersonated a Polish milkmaid in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 (8) |
| MRT | "Rocky III" and "The A-Team" star |
| BRITS | Inventors of linoleum and the A.T.M., for example |
| NAMATH | New York Jets quarterback and The A-Team actor, Joe... (6) |
