| PAINTBOX | Inapt rendering bullock's head and steer in watercolours (5-3) |
| PAINT | Inapt rendering of gloss, for example (5) |
| SEASCAPE | Painted in watercolours? (8) |
| PROXIMAL | Steer in first, close to the centre (8) |
| SARSENET | Can steer in direction of silk (8) |
| INTEREST | Steer in time to produce a good return (8) |
| COXSWAIN | Person who steers in rowing races (8) |
| COX | Artist who captured landscapes and weather conditions in watercolours; Rhyl Sands, The Skylark and River Scene with Boys Fishing to name a few (3) |
| CLIFF | Depicted in watercolours by Eric Ravilious, part of a coastline such as the Seven Sisters in Sussex or those formed by ice-age floods in Dover (5) |
| REPTON | Regarded as the successor to Capability Brown, a landscape designer who presented "before" and "after" views in watercolours in distinctive red leather books (6) |
| ALLINGHAM | Artist noted for her depictions of rural England's thatched cottages and gardens in watercolours, including Beneath the Cherry Tree, Fetching the Milk and The Basket Woman (9) |
| SEPIA | What reddish-brown pigment obtained from the cuttlefish is used in watercolours? (5) |
| GOUACHES | Opaque watercolours with a matte finish (8) |
| PAINTING | Work of art created with oils, watercolours, gouache or tempera (8) |
| DABBLERS | Many do watercolours of Belgium with black alders spreading around (8) |
| LIMN | From "cast light on", word originally meaning "illuminate a manuscript with ornamental letters", later "draw or paint in watercolours", "suffuse or highlight" or "describe in painting or words" (4) |
| SPENSER | Author of The Faerie Queene, an allegorical epic poem dedicated to Elizabeth I with characters painted in watercolours by William Blake some 250 years later (7) |
| TERSE | How to steer in a concise manner (5) |
| ESTER | Move a steer in the compound (5) |
| LAUGHINGSTOCK | Butt steer in stitches (8,5) |
