| PLEINAIR | French term that refers to the practice of painting outdoors (5-3) |
| MISEENABYME | French term that can refer to a film within a film |
| PLENAIR | Style of painting outdoors |
| UNDERRUN | Word that refers to the degree to which a programme falls short; the action of going, passing or running beneath; or, the current below the surface, whether real or figurative (8) |
| MNEMONIC | Of or relating to the practice of aiding the memory (8) |
| NEPOTISM | Favouritism towards relatives. The word has Italian and Latin roots, originally referring to the practice of granting privileges to a pope's "nephew", a euphemism for his son. |
| LADYBIRD | With a Latin designation that refers to the word "scarlet", a spotted beetle esteemed by gardeners, whose name was given to an imprint of children's books (8) |
| CROCEOUS | Word for "saffron-coloured" that refers to the ancient Greek name of said dried orange-hued stigmas (8) |
| FRUITAGE | Old or literary word that refers to the process or season of producing berries, drupes, pepos, pomes etc; or, said crop or harvest collectively (8) |
| HARD | First word of the term that refers to the computer component containing several disks, or platters, with an electromagnetic read/write head for each surface. A microprocessor in this part controls the |
| HYACINTH | Word that refers to a blue gem of the ancients, possibly aquamarine or sapphire; cinnamon stone; brown, red or yellow zircon; purple of various hues; a bluebell/larkspur that sprang from the blood of |
| STADE | ___ was a sprint of approximately 200 yards in the Ancient Olympics. Fill in the blank with a word that shares its root with an English term that refers to a sports arena. |
| ZARZUELA | Spanish term, from "blackberry, bramble", that refers to a Catalan bouillabaisse-like seafood stew; Spanish operetta/vaudeville; a royal palace of Espana; or, metonymically, the monarchy of Spain (8) |
| ALFRESCO | Learner pursues first in Art painting outdoors (8) |
| SIDEREAL | Type of day that refers to Earth's rotation with respect to distant stars |
| LAAGER | South African term that refers to a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons |
| BAZBALL | The term that refers to England's aggressive strategy for Tests under new coach Mccullum. (7) |
| TURKEY | In bowling, what is the term that refers to three consecutive strikes? (6) |
| ACONITE | Term that refers to any of several different usually toxic plants |
| SUBTWEET | Social media post that refers to another user without directly mentioning that person |
