| FORBES | Founder member of the Newlyn School of painters whose A...uvre includes A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach, Farmyard, The Drinking Place and The Little Smithy (6) |
| COTMAN | Member of the Norwich School of Painters whose name is used by Winsor & Newton on a range of water colours (6) |
| COPLEY | Painter whose A Boy with a Flying Squirrel was admired by Joshua Reynolds and Benjamin West (6) |
| VENDIS | Fish sale on island |
| MUNNINGS | Artist of the Newlyn School noted for equine subjects and portraiture such as My Wife, My Horse and Myself (8) |
| DIEBRUCKE | Group of German Expressionist painters whose manifesto was written by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in 1906; literally, 'The Bridge' (3,6) |
| ODIC | Like much of Keats's Auvre |
| TRAGEDIES | Much of Jean Racine's Auvre |
| URBANART | Much of Banksy's Auvre |
| SARDINE | Diner's order includes a fish (7) |
| THAICUISINE | It usually includes a fish sauce called nam pla |
| METACARPAL | Stuff you shouldn't microwave includes a fish bone (10) |
| DEANMARTIN | Founder member of the Rat Pack, he was the epitome of cool on his TV show with a martini in one hand and a cigarette in the other (4,6) |
| GEORGESSEURAT | French post-impressionist whose A Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago: 2 wds. |
| FLOTATION | The process of offering a company's shares for sale on the stock market for the first time (9) |
| KNIGHT | Artist and Royal Academician Dame Laura, noted for scenes of circus life, ballet, women at war and for Newlyn School landscapes such as Lamorna Cove and On the Beach (6) |
| CARR | Author of A Day in Summer, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup and What Hetty Did whose A Month in the Country was adapted into a film (4) |
| HENRI | One of the artists who founded the Ashcan School of painters (5) |
| ISSEYMIYAKE | Designer whose "A Piece of Cloth" concept entails creating a full outfit from a single tube of fabric |
| JOYCE | Surname of James Augustine Aloysius, whose A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces his literary alter ego, Stephen Dedalus (5) |
