| WOODBLOCKS | Items used to create "pictures of the floating world" in the Japanese art of ukiyo-e, such as those at the V&A (10) |
| PAINT | A coloured substance used to create pictures (5) |
| UKIYOE | Meaning "pictures of the floating world", a school of Japanese art depicting subjects from everyday life in colourful paintings or woodblock prints (5-1) |
| FLOWERS | Botanical structures pressed in the Japanese art of oshibana (7) |
| CRANE | Long-legged bird traditionally represented in the Japanese art of origami |
| OILPAINT | Product used by artists to create pictures (3-5) |
| DRAWSTUMPS | Stop play to create picture puzzles |
| ILLUSTRATE | Create pictures (10) |
| ISHIGURO | Author of seven novels including An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| UTAMARO | Retrospective, to some extent, for a mature artist of the floating world |
| ONO | Masuji ___ (protagonist of Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World) |
| WOODCUT | Design or print created from an engraved block in xylography or the Japanese art ukiyo-e (7) |
| CARD | Instrument for combing raw wool; or, one of the items used to form melds in rummy games such as gin or canasta (4) |
| KABUKITHEATERS | Performance venues popular in the "floating world" of the Edo period |
| GEISHA | Sayo Masudo's account of the unromantic reality of Japan's 'Floating World', Autobiography Of A ... |
| WAVE | The Great ___ off Kanagawa, a woodblock print by the Japanese Ukiyo-e artist Hokusai |
| ADVENTCALENDARS | Items used to count the days leading to Christmas by means of numbered doors revealing chocolates, trinkets or gifts when opened (6,9) |
| BUTTONS | Sold in haberdasheries and used by dressmakers and tailors, items used to decorate the garb traditionally worn by pearly kings and queens (7) |
| ICEBERGALLEY | Newfoundland's coast, as it is dubbed, because of the floating-by-chunks from the Arctic: 2 wds. |
| EDO | Period that gave rise to ukiyo-e art |
