| MCESCHER | Dutch graphic artist of the 20th century, famed for his works of optical illusion (1,1,6) |
| TALLIS | Thomas - - -,English composer of the 16th Century famed for his choral music (6) |
| MONET | Painter famed for his works showing water lilies (5) |
| HIRST | Damien -, English artist noted for his works of dead animals preserved in formaldehyde (5) |
| SPENCER | Stanley, English painter noted for his works of Christ in a contemporary English setting (7) |
| OPART | Painting style of optical illusion, popular in the 1960s (2,3) |
| LILAC | Purple patch of optical illusion is on its way back (5) |
| MIRAGE | A kind of optical illusion (6) |
| ACHROMAT | Word, from the Greek for "without colour", for a lens engineered to minimise the rainbow- like effect of optical aberration (8) |
| WHISTLER | Painter who used musical terms including arrangement, harmony, nocturne and symphony as titles for his works and whose distinctive evolving monogrammed butterfly signature was an expressive element of |
| EYEPIECE | Combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments (8) |
| EPISCOPE | Form of optical projector |
| ESCHER | MC ___, Dutch graphic artist noted for his drawings of impossible figures (6) |
| PIRANESI | 18th-century Italian graphic artist and architect |
| DESIGNER | An architect, couturier, drafter, graphic artist or other creator, maker, originator or producer; or, a plotter (8) |
| ENGRAVER | Graphic artist (8) |
| MAPMAKER | Graphic artist who often shows latitude at work? (8) |
| INDESIGN | Adobe program used by graphic artists |
| PABLO | ___ Picasso : probably the most influential artist of the 20th century? (5) |
| PICASSO | Pablo ___ : probably the most influential artist of the 20th century? (7) |
