| SARTO | Italian word for "tailor", which is the epithet of the Florentine painter Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca, whose frescos include The Journey of the Magi and The Nativity of the Virgin (5) |
| KINGMAKER | Warwick the ---, epithet of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (9) |
| PALLADIUM | Element that discoverer William Hyde Wollaston named after an asteroid that was itself named after the epithet of a wisdom goddess (9) |
| OVOLO | Feature added by architect d'Agnolo voluntarily when flipping houses (5) |
| MAKESFOR | Is one's tailor, which helps to bring about |
| LIPPI | Fra Filippo ---, 15th Century Italian painter of the Florentine school, noted for his frescoes at Prato Cathedral (5) |
| SNIPS | Hand-shears for cutting sheet metal; an informal word for tailors; or, little white or pink markings on the muzzles of some horses (5) |
| ORRIS | Fragrant rootstock of the Florentine iris used in perfumes (5) |
| COSIMO | Forename of the banker depicted in portraits by his court painter Agnolo Bronzino who was the first member of the Medici family to rule Florence (6) |
| BELL | Sharing her forename with the Latin epithet of the painted lady butterfly, an artist whose portrait The Memoir Club depicts prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, including her sister, Virginia Wo |
| ISIS | Local epithet of the Thames after which Oxford's student magazine, rivalled by Cherwell, is named (4) |
| BERTRAM | Who bears himself bravely in the Florentine Wars and is the Count of Rossillion in All's Well That Ends Well? |
| BOTTICELLI | Florentine painter who worked for the Medici family throughout most of his life; his works include Primavera and a depiction of a goddess standing in a scallop shell in The Birth of Venus (10) |
| ANDREADEL | Florentine painter of the High Renaissance whose notable works include The Nativity of the Virgin (1514) |
| BRONZINO | Agnolo, 16th Century painter whose works include The Holy Family with St. John the Baptist (8) |
| SWAN | Stately cygnus immortalised in ice sculpture, towel art, an epithet of the Bard of Avon and on vesta boxes (4) |
| ALTEREGO | The other half is for tailor, for example, from Oxford (5,3) |
| LASERENISSIMA | Traditional epithet of the Republic of Venice |
| COMFORTER | One who consoles or soothes; a long woollen scarf; a baby's dummy or pacifier; an epithet of the Holy Ghost; or, in the US, a warm quilt (9) |
| COSIMODEMEDICI | Banker who used his vast fortune to control the Florentine political system in the 15th century |
