| RUSKIN | Influential Victorian art critic and aesthete |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer and aesthete who wrote the play The Importance Of Being Earnest (5,5) |
| CARLYLE | Influential Victorian author clearly red-pencilled (7) |
| MELLY | George ___, art critic and jazz musician whose volumes of autobiography include Rum, Bum and Concertina and Owning Up (5) |
| BRIAN | Art critic and columnist whose television credits included Big Art Challenge and The Naked Pilgrim: The Road to Santiago (5,6) |
| BRIANSEWELL | Art critic and columnist whose television credits included Big Art Challenge and The Naked Pilgrim: The Road to Santiago |
| GEORGEMELLY | Art critic and jazz musician whose volumes of autobiography include Rum, Bum and Concertina and Owning Up |
| SEWELL | Art critic and columnist whose television credits included Big Art Challenge and The Naked Pilgrim The Road to Santiago (5,6) |
| PRERAPHAELITE | Member of an small group formed in 1848 to oppose the dominant conventions of the Victorian art world (3-10) |
| JOHNRUSKIN | 19th-century English art critic and social reformer whose works include Modern Painters and Unto this Last (4,6) |
| SPIELMANN | Marion, art critic and writer who died in 1948 (9) |
| MARINA | ____ Warner, historian, art critic and novelist born in 1946 (6) |
| DILETTANTE | Aesthete and student seduced by slim French relative (10) |
| READ | Herbert ___, poet, art critic and author of 1935 novel The Green Child (4) |
| DIDEROT | Denis - - -, French philosopher, art critic and writer during the Enlightenment (7) |
| ROGERFRY | English art critic and member of the Bloomsbury group (5,3) |
| ATHENE | Wise goddess starts to spell "aesthete" (6) |
| THEFOURTHESTATE | Aesthete of truth hammered news media (3,6,6) |
| ARTY | Like an aesthete to recite Shaw |
| YOGHURT | I leave Indian aesthete injured, to seek food |
