| TROMPELOEIL | Illusion in art, often falsely suggesting three dimensions |
| AMORINO | Italian word, from "little love", for a putto representing a cupid in art, often with a bow/arrow or even a dove (7) |
| LOEIL | Trompe ___ (visual illusion in art) |
| TROMPE | Visual illusion in art that gives the appearance of reality; French, 'deceives the eye' (6,5) |
| PERSPECTIVE | The theory, or art, of suggesting three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface (11) |
| AREACODE | Place fish before middlemen suggesting three-digit number maybe? |
| OPART | In the middle of audiotape, hunk creates illusion in gallery (2,3) |
| TRIPTYCH | Set of three panels hinged to form one work of art, often as an altarpiece, sometimes with outer wings painted in grisaille (8) |
| DADA | Art often considered non-art |
| KITSCH | Mass-produced art, often considered in bad taste (6) |
| SCULPTURE | Art in three dimensions (9) |
| CUBIC | No arts in the subarctic to work in three dimensions (5) |
| MIRAGE | Optical illusion in the Sahara |
| VANISHINGPOINT | Ivan isn't hoping to change illusion in painting (9,5) |
| OPTICAL | Type of illusion in unstable coal pit (7) |
| TOPICAL | Optical illusion in the news (7) |
| AUTOKINESIS | An illusion in which a stationary object seems to move |
| MAYA | Illusion in Ramayana (4) |
| RAWMATERIAL | London psych group who pondered Time And Illusion in 1969 (3,8) |
| TAT | Body art often sported by rock stars |
