| OKEEFFE | Georgia, US painter whose works include Sky Above Clouds IV and Shell No 1 (7) |
| ALLSTON | Washington ?, US painter whose works include 1818's Elijah in the Desert |
| MCGOUGH | Roger -, poet whose volumes include Sky in the Pie and That Awkward Age (7) |
| AUGUSTA | City in Georgia, US; location of a famous golf course (7) |
| ATLANTA | The state capital of Georgia, US, host city of the 1996 Olympics (7) |
| GRIGSON | Poet and founder-editor of New Verse who wrote books including Wild Flowers in Britain, An English Farmhouse and Shell Country Book (7) |
| DUCHAMP | Marcel ___, French-born US painter and sculptor whose best-known work is Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 |
| CALCIUM | The essential constituent of bone, teeth and shell (7) |
| BANSHEE | Forbid the girl's audition and she'll scream until we go (7) |
| WARWICK | Earl who first backed the Yorkist Edward IV and then switched to put the Lancastrian Henry VI on the throne (7) |
| BEARD | William Holbrook, US painter whose works include 1865's Susanna and the Elders (5) |
| TOBACCO | ___ Road, 1932 Erskine Caldwell novel set in Georgia, USA |
| SARGENT | John Singer -, Italy-born US painter of 1886's Portrait of Mrs Robert Harrison (7) |
| BLUESKY | A break in the clouds (4-3) |
| KITAJ | R B ___, US painter whose works include 1967's Juan de La Cruz (5) |
| HICKS | Edward ___, US painter whose works include 1846 oil Noah's Ark (5) |
| DURAND | Asher Brown ___, US painter whose works include 1868's The Trysting Tree (6) |
| WYETH | Andrew, US painter whose works include 1944's Night Hauling (5) |
| HOMER | Winslow ?, US painter whose works include 1875 oil Weaning the Calf (5) |
| SULLY | Thomas ?, Lincolnshire-born US painter whose works include 1819's Passage of the Delaware |