| THEBLUEBOY | Full-length portrait by Thomas Gainsborough thought to be of Jonathan Buttall |
| BLUE | The - Boy; full-length portrait by Thomas Gainsborough (4) |
| BLUEBOY | 'The ---', painting of Jonathan Buttall by Thomas Gainsborough (4,3) |
| LAWRENCE | Sir Thomas -; artist who painted a full-length portrait of Queen Charlotte in 1790 (8) |
| GLASS | Transparent material upon which Thomas Gainsborough painted a series of landscapes in oils to be viewed by means of a purposebuilt candlelit "showbox" (5) |
| FALLENSTAR | A gelatinous mass of cyanobacteria once thought to be of meteoric origin (6,4) |
| ABACUSES | Beaded precursors to the calculator, thought to be of ancient Babylonian origin (8) |
| GEORGIANA | --- Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire, the subject of paintings by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough (9) |
| OSSIAN | Semi-legendary Irish Gaelic poet and warrior thought to be of 3rd century AD (6) |
| ROSETTASTONE | Linguistically important granodiorite slab, formerly thought to be of black basalt |
| IPSWICH | County town of Suffolk where Thomas Gainsborough lived before moving to the Circus in Bath (7) |
| LISA | Hall-length portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci, the Mona _ (4) |
| MONALISA | Half-length portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci also known as La Gioconda (4,4) |
| JAMES | Depicted in a portrait by John Singer Sargent, a novelist awarded the Order of Merit in 1916 who wrote The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove (5) |
| MRSSIDDONS | 1785 Thomas Gainsborough painting of a Welsh actress (3,7) |
| INLET | One allowed to catch finale of Jonathan Creek (5) |
| SUFFOLK | Birth county of Thomas Gainsborough (7) |
| SUDBURY | Market town in Suffolk that was the birthplace in 1727 of The Blue Boy painter Thomas Gainsborough (7) |
| SELFIE | Arm's-length portrait |
| SITWELL | Eldest of three literary siblings who wrote the poetry collection Facade and novelised biography of Jonathan Swift I Live Under a Black Sun (7) |
