| DEHOOCH | Dutch artist whose paintings include A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy, The Asparagus Vendor and Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room (2,5) |
| VERMEER | Dutch artist whose paintings include The Milkmaid, Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Lacemaker (7) |
| COX | Variety of pippin apple; or, a landscape artist whose paintings include A Welsh Village, Sheep Drover On Windy Day and Going to the Hayfield (3) |
| VANGOGH | Post-Impressionist Dutch artist whose paintings include The Sower, Irises, Wheatfield with Crows and Sunflowers (his representation of happiness) (3,4) |
| SEURAT | Post-Impressionist artist and exponent of pointillism whose paintings include A Sunday Afternoon on |
| MANAGEABLE | Cope with a boy the French find quite 19 across (10) |
| UNDRESS | No state for woman preparing garments - such a state without them? |
| ETHEL | Change the law to include a woman (5) |
| TENS | Bills slated to be redesigned in 2020 to include a woman |
| HOMER | Artist whose many paintings include A Basket of Clams, Girl in the Hammock, On the Stile and Peach Blossoms (5) |
| BRANDY | Word linking with "butter" for a sauce for Christmas pudding or "snap" for a cream-filled biscuit (6) |
| NOUNS | Bread and butter, for two |
| STAPLEDIET | Bread and butter for pin up convention? (6,4) |
| ALICIAKEYS | American singer-songwriter whose hit singles include A Woman's Worth and Girl on Fire |
| PAT | Enough butter for a piece of toast |
| KNEADING | Rebellious Dane locked up by ruler for preparing bread (8) |
| DEBAR | Stop preparing bread (5) |
| OSTADE | Dutch artist whose works include Peasants in a Tavern, An Alchemist, The Painter in His Workshop and A Cobbler (6) |
| REMBRANDT | Dutch artist whose oeuvre included The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, The Night Watch, Syndics of the Drapers' Guild and around 100 self-portraits (9) |
| STEEN | Dutch artist whose scenes of domestic chaos, merrymaking and rowdy taverns include The Dissolute Household, Beware of Luxury and The Dancing Couple (5) |
