| MOSER | Goldsmith's daughter, flower painter and a co-founder of the RA whose colourful floral murals, reminiscent of an arbour open to the heavens, decorate a room at Frogmore House, named in her honour (5) |
| LEI | Colorful floral neckwear |
| ACADEMICIAN | Eg, member of the RA |
| SUNGOD | Paper contacts creator of The 'RA? (3,3) |
| MURRAY | Marine naturalist and a co-founder of oceanography who formed part of the crew on the 1872-76 Challenger expedition (6) |
| ADDISON | Joseph ____ was an essayist, poet and politician, and a co-founder of The Spectator |
| MARTIN | Musician who is the lead vocalist and a co-founder of Coldplay (6) |
| ARP | Alsatian painter, poet, sculptor and a co-founder of Dadaism (3) |
| HILL | Type of landform sometimes with a chalk figure; flock of ruffs; or, a co-founder of the National Trust (4) |
| WYNDHAMLEWIS | English painter and author who was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art (7,5) |
| BRIGHT | John ___, British Quaker and politician who was a co-founder of the Anti- Corn Law League in the late 1830s (6) |
| MARC | A co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter group, which was named for he and Kandinsky's combined fondness of blue, horses and equestrians (4) |
| YEATS | Poet and dramatist whose play The Countess Cathleen was dedicated to his muse Maud Gonne, who was a co-founder of Sinn Fein (5) |
| COUBERTIN | Pierre de ____ was a co-founder of the International Olympic Committee and its longest-serving president |
| VELVET | Flower painter Jan Brueghel the Elder's nickname; a character in an Enid Bagnold novel; or, a close-cut pile textile traditionally sold by a mercer (6) |
| INIGO | English landscape painter and a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768, John ... Richards |
| MARYPICKFORD | Canadian-born actress who was a co-founder of the film studio United Artists and was married to Douglas Fairbanks (4,8) |
| AUBRIETA | Flowering plant of the cabbage family, named after a French flower painter (8) |
| KEIRHARDIE | Scot who was a co-founder of the Labour Party (4,6) |
| JOHNMUIR | Scottish-born naturalist who was a co-founder of the US Sierra Club (4,4) |